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| 726 |
| | | The Venetians for the first time elect their own doge, acting independently of the Byzantine governor in Ravenna | |
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| 756 |
| | | Pepin III, after recovering Byzantine territories in Italy from the Lombards, hands control of the region to the pope in Rome | |
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| 774 |
| | | After two campaigns in Lombardy, Charlemagne establishes himself as king of the Lombards in northern Italy | |
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| 781 |
| | | Charlemagne, meeting the English scholar Alcuin on a visit to Italy, invites him to become head of the palace school in Aachen | |
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| 800 |
| | | In St Peter's in Rome, on Christmas Day, pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor - supposedly to Charlemagne's surprise | |
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| c. 820 |
| | | The Venetians move their administration from the island of Torcello to the Rialto | |
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| 827 |
| | | The Arabs get a foothold in Sicily and begin a slow process, not complete till AD 965, of squeezing the Byzantines out of the island | |
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| 828 |
| | | The Venetians, acquiring from Alexandria some bones believed to be those of St Mark, build St Mark's to house the valuable relic | |
|  | St.Mark's, Venice. Mosaic
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| c. 950 |
| | | Medieval Europe's first institute of higher education is established, with the founding of the medical school at Salerno | |
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| 962 |
| | | The imperial coronation of Otto I by Pope John XII in St Peter's puts in place the formal role of a Holy Roman emperor | |
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