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| c. 800 |
| | | Seafarers colonize New Zealand, the last great island region in the Pacific to be reached by human beings | |
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| c. 800 |
| | | Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons | |
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| c. 800 |
| | | The Jews prosper in the Muslim and Carolingian empires, forming strong communities in Spain and in Germany | |
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| 800 |
| | | In St Peter's in Rome, on Christmas Day, pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor - supposedly to Charlemagne's surprise | |
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| from the 9th century |
| | | The ancient site of the city of Babylon is gradually abandoned and becomes covered in silt from the Euphrates, until archaelogical excavation begins in the 19th century | |
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| 801 |
| | | Chia Tan produces an ambitious map for the emperor, some 30 by 33 feet in size, showing the entire T'ang empire | |
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| 805 |
| | | Pope Leo III consecrates Charlemagne's new palace chapel in Aachen, modelled on San Vitale in Ravenna | |
|  | Aachen Cathedral, Rotunda and Ambulatory
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| 811 |
| | | Hemming, a Danish king, makes a treaty with the Franks establishing the river Eider as the southern border of Denmark | |
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| 813 |
| | | Charlemage has his only surviving legitimate son, Louis the Pious, crowned as his co-emperor | |
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| 814 |
| | | Charlemagne dies and his son Louis the Pious inherits the whole, now greatly extended, Frankish empire | |
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