Relics of Columba were carried before Scottish armies in the reliquary made at Iona in the mid-8th century, called the Brecbennoch.

Relations were very strained in the mid-8th century between the papacy and the Eastern Roman emperors over the support of the Isaurian Dynasty for iconoclasm.

It was discovered that the settlement of Ladoga, whose foundation has been ascribed to Rurik, was actually established in the mid-9th century, although doubt is now cast on this by the dendrochronological evidence that Ladoga existed by the mid-8th century.

Menzlin was set up in the mid-8th century.

Archaeologists concluded that this part of Wat's Dyke, so long thought of as Anglo-Saxon and a mid-8th century contemporary of Offa's Dyke, must have been built 300 years earlier in the post-Roman period in Britain.

This replacement of human victims with effigies is attributed to Padmasambhava, a Tibetan saint of the mid-8th century, in Tibetan tradition.

Writing in the early-to mid-8th century, he mostly paraphrases Gildas's writings in his Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum and De Temporum Ratione.

In the mid-8th century, the first wind powered automata were built: " statues that turned with the wind over the domes of the four gates and the palace complex of the Round City of Baghdad ".

Crypts were introduced into Frankish church building in the mid-8th century, as a feature of its Romanization.

Under Byzantine rule, from the mid-8th century, they formed the theme of Cephallenia.

This campaign expanded the practice of non-Roman Christian rulers undertaking the conversion of their neighbours by armed force ; Frankish Catholic missionaries, along with others from Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England, had entered Saxon lands since the mid-8th century, resulting in increasing conflict with the Saxons, who resisted the missionary efforts and parallel military incursions.

The earliest anthology of Japanese poetry, the mid-8th century Man ' yōshū, contained several sections devoted to the seasons.

The Chinese monk Jianzhen, who traveled to Japan in the mid-8th century CE to promote Buddhism, wrote of the Okinawa as 阿児奈波 ().

Norna-Gests þáttr has a brief mention about the king of both Denmark and Sweden, Sigurd Ring ( ruling in the mid-8th century ), fighting against invading Curonians and Kvens:

For most of its history, at least until the mid-8th century, the rulers of Dumnonia were probably also the rulers of Cornwall.

The script was used from approximately the mid-8th century until the 13th century, although there are examples from as late as the 16th century.

After the mid-8th century, the letter also has an open loop and resembles the letter u ; this type is referred to as " eNa-type.

William was born in northern France in the mid-8th century.

The boundaries above show the political situation during the mid-8th century BCE

Vinekh ( also spelled Vineh ; ) was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.

Offa's Dyke was erected in the mid-8th century, forming a barrier between Wales and Mercia.

The most substantial structural remains date from the Late Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods ( 3rd – 4th to mid-8th centuries ), when the site was a Jewish village with a synagogue.

* mid-8th century-Great Wild Goose Pagoda at Ci ' en Temple, Xi ' an, Shanxi, is rebuilt.

* c. mid-8th century-Camel Carrying a Group of Musicians, from a tomb near Xi ' an, Shanxi, is made.

Allegedly in connection with the Lycurgan Reforms ( e. g. in the mid-8th Century BC ), property had been divided into 9, 000 equal portions as part of a massive land reform.

They were not a particularly warlike state, but evidence of their unique weaponry, dated back to mid-8th Century, has been found around the city of Novgorod.

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of the Athanasian Creed date from the late 8th century.

Things got worse in the early 18th century ; after the War of Spanish Succession, Alicante went into a long, slow decline, surviving through the 18th and 19th centuries by making shoes and growing agricultural produce such as oranges and almonds, and thanks to its fisheries.

This doctrine is a 17th century innovation, although it is now applied retrospectively for centuries ; the seventh Baron De La Warr had three surviving sons ; the first died without children, the second left two daughters, the third left a son.

The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book.

File: Model of a chariot from the Oxus Treasure by Nickmard Khoey. jpg | Room 52-A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, circa 5th to 4th century BC

In the 20th century there were close to four hundred manuscripts still surviving, a testament to its former popularity.

The earliest surviving fragments from codices come from Egypt and are variously dated ( always tentatively ) towards the end of the 1st century or in the first half of the 2nd.

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the 20th century and of the surviving states in the early 21st century.

The oldest surviving world maps are the Babylonian world maps from the 9th century BCE.

The older mixed Vulgate / Diatessaron text type also appears to have continued as a distinct tradition, as such texts appear to underlie surviving 13th-14th century Gospel harmonies in Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle French, Middle English, Tuscan and Venetian ; although no example of this hypothetical Latin sub-text has ever been identified.

This view receives no support, however, in surviving mid-4th century Roman legislation on Jewish matters.

Queen Elizabeth I of England is noted to have been entertained by " Country Dancing ," although the relationship of the dances she saw to the surviving dances of the mid-17th century is disputed.

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

Examples of surviving Chinese chain stitch embroidery worked in silk thread have been dated to the Warring States period ( 5th-3rd century BC ).

The first two editions place a first nuclear war near the end of the 21st century, with the final war in the years AD 2309-2322, and ascribe the final annihilation to a terrorist group called " The Apocalypse and the ensuing retaliation by surviving factions.

Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th century and written respectively in Italian and in Spanish — although the Spanish manuscript is now lost, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript.

This work should not be confused with the surviving Epistle of Barnabas, which may have been written in 2nd century Alexandria.

In the earliest surviving gospel collection, Papyrus 45 of the 3rd century, it is placed second in the order Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, an order which is also found in other very early New Testament manuscripts.

In the 16th century a small remnant of a Gothic dialect known as Crimean Gothic was described as surviving in the Crimea.

The earliest surviving documentary evidence for the use of the hand cannon, considered the oldest type of portable firearm and a forerunner of the handgun, are from several Arabic manuscripts dated to the 14th century.

In the 12th century, German Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098 – 1179 ) wrote several influential theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.

After c. 1180 BC, the empire was invaded by the Sea peoples and disintegrated into several independent " Neo-Hittite " city-states, some surviving until the 8th century BC.

A century later the victorious William of Normandy received the surrender of the surviving senior English Lords and Clergy, at Berkhamsted, resulting in a new Anglicised title of William the Conqueror.