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1 Events
2 Significant people
3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
4 Decades and years
Events
Beowulf
might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the
8th century
Reign of
Charlemagne
, and concurrent (and controversially labeled)
Carolingian Renaissance
in western Europe
Viking
attacks on Europe begin
Oseberg
ship burial
The
Magyars
arrive in what is now
Hungary
, forcing the
Serbs
and
Bulgars
south of the
Danube
.
The
Tukolor
settle in the Senegal river valley.
Muslim
traders settle in the north-west and south-east of
Madagascar
.
around 813-around 915 - period of serious Arab naval raids on shores of Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas
800-909 - rule of
Aghlabids
as independent dynasty in North Africa
850-875 - The first
Norse
settlers arrive on
Iceland
.
863-879 - period of schism between eastern and western churches
Late 9th century:
Bulgaria
stretches from the mouth of the
Danube
to
Epirus
and
Bosnia
.
Significant people
Alfred the Great
Arnulf of Carinthia
Charlemagne
Louis the Pious
Adi Sankara
Anup von Kelkar
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Vulgar Latin
begins to devolve into various
Romance languages
First image of a rotary grindstone in a European source - illustration shows crank, first known use of a crank in the West (Utrecht Psalter, A.D. 843)
Invention of
gunpowder
by Chinese
Taoist
Alchemists
Decades and years
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