VIc		South Slavs reach the Danube and make incursions into the Balkan peninsula, which they settle in the course of this century. Slavs reached Adriatic coast. Fall of Salona (near Split) (614).
		623		Prince Samo (623-658) unites Slavic tribes defending against the Avars.
Arabians (Mores) conquer Iberian peninsula. Bulgarians take Sofia (809).		711
		VIII- IXc.		First Serbian princes: Viseslav, Radoslav, Prosigoj. Methodios (bef. 820-885) and Constantine-Cyrill (826-869), missionaries, "Slavic apostles", founders of Slavic literacy.
Norman conquest of England begins.		836
		850		Prince Vlastimir (840s - ca. 860) Vlastimir's sons, Mutimir, Strojmir, and Gojnik, defeat Bulgarian army (852-857).
		867		Serban conversion to Christianity (867-874).
Pope John VIII (872-882).		872
				First mention of Belgrade (former Singidunum) in the April 16th letter of Pope John VIII (878).
		891		Prince Pribislav, inherits throne from father Mutimir, but is soon overthrown by cousin Petar Gojnikovic.
		892		Prince Petar Gojnikovic (892-917). Caught by Bulgarians by deception, dies in banishment.
Bulgarian emperor Symeon, the most important ruler of the First Bulgarian empire, raises to throne.		893
				Kliment and Naum, missionaries in Macedonia, spread Cyrillic literacy among Serbs (893). X-XI c. - establishes the foundation of Serbian literature.
Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor and scholar, publishes important data about the South Slavs in his work "De administrando imperio."		913
		917		Prince Pavle Branovic (917-920), Mutimir's grandson and Hungarian vassal.
		920		Prince Zaharije Pribisavljevic (920-924) overthrows Pavle. Bulgarian occupation of Serbian lands (924).
		927		Prince Caslav Klonimirovic (927 - ca. 960). Ruler of Raska (Serbia), Duklja (Montenegro), Travunija (East Hercegovina) and Bosnia.
Otto I the Great, king of Germany and first Holy Roman emperor.		936
		976		Samuilo, ruler of Macedonian Slavs and Bulgarian emperor. Byzantine emperor Basil II Bulgaroktonos defeats Samuilo's army at Belasica in 1014, and annexes his state.
Hugh Capet, king of France, founds the Capet dynasty (ruled until 1348).		987

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