730. Image worship prohibited throughout the Eastern Empire.
731. Last confirmation of a papal election by the Eastern Emperor, the occasion being the election of Gregory III.
732. Battle of Tours, when Charles Martel utterly routs the Saracens and saves the empire of the Franks. See [BATTLE OF TOURS], iv, 313.
Pope Gregory III calls a council at Rome; an edict is issued against the iconoclasts.
733. Emperor Leo marries his son Constantine to a Tartar or Turkish princess, who at her baptism takes the name of Irene.
740. The Saracens are expelled from the greater part of France by Charles Martel and his ally, Lieutprand.
Death of Leo the Isaurian; accession of Constantine V as emperor of the East.
742. Birth of Charlemagne.
744. Carloman defeats the Saxons; they are forced into baptism.
746. King Carloman relinquishes the throne of the Franks, and retires into a monastery. See [FOUNDING OF THE CARLOVINGIAN DYNASTY], iv, 324.