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| c. 850 |
| | | The caliphs in Baghdad begin to employ Turkish slaves, or Mamelukes, in their armies | |
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| 862 |
| | | During refurbishment of the mosque at Kairouan, in north Africa, a high fluted dome is added | |
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Photograph Barnaby Rogerson
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| 863 |
| | | The missionary brothers Cyril and Methodius arrive in Moravia, where they introduce the Greek Orthodox faith in a special Slavonic liturgy | |
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| 865 |
| | | The Bulgarian king Boris I is baptized in the Greek Orthodox faith, bringing his people within the Byzantine fold | |
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| c. 866 |
| | | The eastern part of the Persian empire comes under the control of the Saffarid dynasty | |
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| 866 |
| | | A great army of Danes captures York - the first step in the establishment of Danelaw in eastern England | |
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| 868 |
| | | The world's first known printed book, a Diamond Sutra, is commissioned by a Buddhist monk in honour of his parents | |
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| 868 |
| | | The Diamand Sutra has as a frontispiece a printed woodcut depicting an enthroned Buddha | |
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| c. 870 |
| | | Ahmad ibn Tulun, a Mameluke, seizes power in Egypt - establishing his own Tulunid dynasty | |
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| c. 870 |
| | | Cyril and Methodius translate the Gospels and parts of the Old Testament into Slavonic for the Moravians. | |
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