| AD | Event |
| 726-840 | Leo the Iconoclast, and his Successors |
| 754 | Their Synod of Constantinople; Their Creed |
| 720-775 | Their Persecution of the Images and Monks;
State of Italy |
| 727 | Epistles of Gregory II. to the Emperor |
| 728 | Revolt of Italy; Republic of Rome |
| 730-752 | Rome attacked by the Lombards |
| 754 | Her Deliverance by Pepin |
| 774 | Conquest of Lombardy by Charlemagne |
751, 753, 768 | Pepin and Charlemagne Kings of France; Patricians of Rome;
Donations of Pepin and Charlemagne to the Popes;
Forgery of the Donation of Constantine |
| 780 | Restoration of Images in the East by the Empress Irene |
| 787 | 7th General Council, 2nd of Nice |
| AD | Event |
| 888 | Division of the Empire |
| 952 | Otho, King of Germany, restores and appropriates the Western Empire; Transactions of the Western and Eastern Empires |
| 800-1060 | Authority of the Emperors in the Election of the Popes; Disorders |
| 1073 | Reformation and Claims of the Church;
Authority of the Emperors in Rome |
| 932 | Revolt of Alberic |
| 967 | Of Pope John XII. |
| 998 | Of the Consul Crescentius |
| 774-1250 | The Kingdom of Italy |
| 1152-1190 | Frederic I. |
| 1198-1250 | Frederic II |
| 814-1250 | Independence of the Princes of Germany |
| 1250 | The Germanic Constitution |
| 1347-1378 | Weakness and Poverty of the German Emperor Charles IV |
| 1356 | His Ostentation; Contrast of the Power and Modesty of Augustus |
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