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Charlemagne, meeting the English scholar Alcuin on a visit to Italy, invites him to become head of the palace school in Aachen
The monks of Lindisfarne become the first known overseas victims of a Viking raid
The Japanese imperial court moves to a new capital city - Kyoto
Alcuin leaves the palace school at Aachen to become abbot of the monastery of Tours
The use of zero, essential in practical mathematics, is now familiar in India and is adopted in Baghdad
The style of architecture of early medieval Europe is Romanesque, in the sense of deriving from Roman examples
Scholars in Baghdad begin translating Greek and Syriac texts into Arabic
The Ismailis become a separate Shi'a sect when they dispute the succession after the death of the sixth imam
The script known as Carolingian minuscule (basis of the modern roman typeface) is developed by Alcuin and his scribes at the monastery of Tours
Batán Grande, in northern Peru, becomes a great pilgrimage centre in the Sican culture
Nestorian beliefs become the orthodoxy of the Christian community in Persia, spreading from there to India and China
The luxury of Baghdad, under the caliph Harun al-Rashid, is evident in the Thousand and One Nights
Seafarers colonize New Zealand, the last great island region in the Pacific to be reached by human beings
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
The Jews prosper in the Muslim and Carolingian empires, forming strong communities in Spain and in Germany
In St Peter's in Rome, on Christmas Day, pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne emperor - supposedly to Charlemagne's surprise
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
Chia Tan produces an ambitious map for the emperor, some 30 by 33 feet in size, showing the entire T'ang empire
Pope Leo III consecrates Charlemagne's new palace chapel in Aachen, modelled on San Vitale in Ravenna
Hemming, a Danish king, makes a treaty with the Franks establishing the river Eider as the southern border of Denmark
Charlemage has his only surviving legitimate son, Louis the Pious, crowned as his co-emperor
Charlemagne dies and his son Louis the Pious inherits the whole, now greatly extended, Frankish empire
Work begins in Rheims on the Utrecht Psalter, an outstanding example of the Carolingian illuminated manuscript
The Venetians move their administration from the island of Torcello to the Rialto
The discovery of the supposed remains of the apostle St James makes Santiago de Compostela a new centre of European pilgrimage
