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| 871 |
| | | The young Alfred leads the English in their first significant victory over the Danes, at Ashdown | |
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| 874 |
| | | Vikings arrive in Iceland and form a settlement on the site of modern Rejkjavik | |
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| 877 |
| | | The Fujiwara family creates for itself a new hereditary office, that of imperial chancellor, through which it effectively rules Japan | |
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| 878 |
| | | Rhodri Mawr, or Rhodri the Great, is widely accepted as king of almost the whole of Wales | |
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| 882 |
| | | Oleg, leader of the Rus, seizes the town of Kiev and makes his headquarters there | |
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| 886 |
| | | Alfred captures London from the Danes, pressing them back into the region of Danelaw where their rule is, for the moment, tolerated | |
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| c. 895 |
| | | The Magyars, under the leadership of Arpad, establish themselves in Hungary | |
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| c. 900 |
| | | With the end of inconoclasm, the screen between the nave and the altar sanctuary becomes covered in icons in Orthodox churches | |
|  | Iconostasis, Suzdal
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| c. 900 |
| | | A Tamil kingdom, established by the Cholas, controls the whole of south India and will last for two centuries | |
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| c. 900 |
| | | Chan Chan, today the largest of the ruined Andean cities, dominates the entire length of Peru | |
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| c. 900 |
| | | Zoroastrians migrate from Muslim Persia to India, where they become known as Parsees | |
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| 900 |
| | | The Samanids, replacing the Saffarids, transform their capital at Bukhara into a centre of Persian culture | |
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| c. 900 |
| | | Playing cards are in use in T'ang dynasty China. | |
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| 903 |
| | | The leader of a peasant uprising captures and kills the Chinese emperor, bringing to an end the T'ang dynasty | |
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| 909 |
| | | Monastic reform, begun at Cluny, is so successful that more than 1000 Benedictine houses eventually follow the Cluniac example | |
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| c. 910 |
| | | Paper money is developed in China, becoming later one of the aspects of Chinese life which most impresses Marco Polo | |
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| 911 |
| | | The Vikings settle in France, as Normans, when Rollo the Ganger is granted feudal rights over the region round Rouen | |
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| 919 |
| | | Henry I is elected king of the east Frankish kingdom, consisting of four great feudal duchies - Bavaria, Swabia, Saxony and Franconia | |
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| 920 |
| | | After years of raiding up the Shannon, the Vikings capture Limerick | |
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| 921 |
| | | The Jewish calendar, deriving originally from the example of Babylon, is given its lasting form | |
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| 929 |
| | | Wenceslas, a prince of the Premsylid family, is murdered on his way into church - and becomes Bohemia's patron saint | |
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| 930 |
| | | An althing of chieftains establishes the commonwealth of Iceland, which will survive for more than three centuries | |
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| c. 930 |
| | | Saadiah Gaon writes a seminal work of Jewish philosophy in his Book of Beliefs and Opinions | |
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| 935 |
| | | Wank Kon changes the name of his kingdom to Koryo, meaning 'high and beautiful', thus providing the rest of the world with the name Korea | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | A Chinese engineer, Chiao Wei-yo, is credited with devising the principle of the two-level pound lock for canals | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | Toltecs move into the valley of Mexico from the north and establish a capital city at Tula | |
|  | Tula, Mexico
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| c. 950 |
| | | Leon forms a loose alliance with its southern neighbour, Castile, to become the most powerful unit in northern Spain | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | Medieval Europe's first institute of higher education is established, with the founding of the medical school at Salerno | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | So many Slavs are captured and sold, in the movement eastwards of the Germans, that their name becomes the European word for a slave | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | The Byzantine empire enjoys a revival, bringing the Slavs within the Greek Orthodox fold and winning victories against the Muslims | |
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| c. 960 |
| | | A fair-skinned and bearded king, by the name of Quetzalcoatl, is exiled from Tula but says that he will be back in a 'One Reed' year. | |
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| 960 |
| | | A warlord, Zhao Kuangyin, establishes a new Chinese dynasty - the Song | |
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| c. 960 |
| | | Harald Bluetooth is baptized a Christian and unites the whole of Denmark as a single kingdom. | |
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| 962 |
| | | The imperial coronation of Otto I by Pope John XII in St Peter's puts in place the formal role of a Holy Roman emperor | |
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| 963 |
| | | The Poles are first recorded as a tribal group when a German knight comes into contact with them in the region round Gniezno | |
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