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480s
486 - Wars of Clovis: The Franks under Clovis I win the Battle of Soissons over Syagrius
500s
Around 500 - Anglo-Saxon Conquest: The Britons defeat the Angles and Saxons at the Battle of Mons Badonicus
501 - Wars of Clovis: Clovis beats the Visigoths at the Battle of Vouillé
510s
510 - India: The Huns win the Battle of Airikina over the Indians
520s
527-565 - Byzantine Empire: Emperor Justinian attempts to re-conquer the Western Roman Empire
570s
577 - Britain: The Saxons of Wessex defeat the Britons at the Battle of Deorham
610s
613 - Byzantine-Persian Wars: Byzantine forces are decisively defeated by the Sassanids at the Battle of Antioch
620s
626-640 - China: Chinese forces began expanding into Central Asia and Korea
630s
633 - Britain: Mercian and Welsh troops killed Edwin of Northumbria at the Battle of Hatfield Chase
634 - Britain: The Northumberians defeat the Welsh at the Battle of Heavenfield
August 15-20, 636 - Muslim Conquests: The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Byzantines at the Battle of Yarmouk
November 16-19, 636 - Muslim Conquests: The Sassanids are beaten at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah by the Rashiduns
January-March, 637 - Muslim Conquests: Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate capture the Sassanid capital at Ctesiphon
640s
642 - Muslim Conquests: Defeat at the Battle of Nahāvand leads to the collapse of the Sassanid Empire
650s
November 16, 654/5 - Britain: King Penda of Mercia is defeated and slain at the Battle of Winwaed
July 26, 657 - First Fitna: Muawiyah I and Ali ibn Abi Talib fight to a bloody draw at the Battle of Siffin
711
711 - Muslim Conquests: Muslim forces invade the Iberian Peninsula
730s
October 10, 732 - Muslim Invasions: Charles Martel turns back the Muslims at the Battle of Tours
750s
May-September, 751 - Asia: Muslim forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeat the Chinese at the Battle of Talas River
760s
768-814 - Franks: Charlemagne conducts campaigns that unite most of Western Europe and result in his crowning as Holy Roman Emperor
770s
August 15, 778 - Charlemagne: The forces of Charlemagne are ambushed in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass
790s
793 - Vikings: Viking raid Lindisfarne monastery off England
830s
834-845 - Vikings: Norse raids on the Rhine, northern France, and northern Germany
838 - Vikings: Egbert of Wessex repulses a Viking invasion at the Battle of Hingston Down
860s
862 - Vikings: Vikings capture Kiev
865 - Vikings: A large Danish army lands in England and invades East Anglia
870s
January, 871 - Viking-Saxon Wars: Ethelred of Wessex is beaten at the Battle of Reading
January 8, 871 - Viking-Saxon Wars: Prince Alfred of Wessex defeats the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown
May 878 - Viking-Saxon Wars: Alfred the Great wins the Battle of Ethandun forcing the Danes to make peace
900s
July 4, 907 - Magyar Incursions: Magyar forces defeat a Bavarian army at the Battle of Pressburg
910s
August 5, 910 - Viking-Saxon Wars: Troops from Wessex and Mercia defeat the Danelaw Vikings at the Battle of Tettenhall
920s
920 - Muslims in Spain: Emir of Cordoba defeats Navarre and Leon at the Battle of Val de Junqueras
930s
March 15, 933 - Magyar Incursions: East Francian troops under Henry the Fowler halt the Magyars at the Battle of Riade
937 - Viking-Saxon Wars: Athelstan of Wessex wins the Battle of Brunanburh and proclaims
himself king of all Britain
950s
August 10, 955 - Magyar Incursions: Otto the Great decisively defeats the Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld
990s
991 - Viking-Saxon Wars: Byrhtnoth is defeated at the Battle of Maldon by Olaf Tryggvason
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