
Events 720s – Iconoclastic Controversy
Iconoclastic Controversy Events 726: Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian destroys the icon of Christ above the Chalke Gate in the capital city of Constantinople, beginning the first phase of the Byzantine Iconoclasm. King Ine of Wessex builds a stone church at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset Prague is founded (according to legend) by Princess Libuše and her husband Přemysl, founder of the Přemyslid dynasty A revolt breaks out in Greece against the religious policies of Emperor Leo III). A rebel fleet under Agallianos Kontoskeles sets out for Constantinople with Kosmas, an anti-emperor, but is destroyed by the Byzantine fleet through the use of Greek fire Chinese eating sticks are introduced in the next 20 years in Japan, where people heretofore have used one-piece pincers. The Japanese call them hashi. Religion Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, fells Thor’s […]