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542 - 594 |
Plague in Europe cuts population in half
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575 |
Buddhism firmly established in Japan
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600 |
Book printing in China
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628 |
Byzantines retake the Holy Cross from the Sassanid Persians
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672 - 735 |
Venerable Bede, English monk, theologian, and author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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700 |
Greek, rather than Latin, becomes the official language of the Eastern Roman Empire
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700 |
Water wheels for mills in use throughout Europe
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715 |
Saint Boniface begins Christian missionary work among Germans
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720 |
Opposition to use of images in Byzantine churches
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725 |
Flowering of Buddhist civilization in China
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727 |
Pope Gregory II excommunicates Byzantine emperor
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742 - 814 |
Charlemagne crowned Roman Emperor by the Pope; Holy Roman Empire as new Western empire in competition with Byzantine Empire
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748 |
First newspaper in print in Peking, China
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750 |
Gregorian church music in Germany, France and England; wind organs from Byzantium replace water organs
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751 |
Chinese paper makers teach paper manufacturing to Arabs
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765 |
Pictorial book printing in Japan
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800 |
Flowering of Korean civilization
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800 |
Pope Leo III splits from Eastern Europe and becomes supreme bishop of the West
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843 |
Treaty of Verdun results in division of Frankish Empire
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845 |
Vivian Bible, one of the earliest illustrated manuscripts
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845 |
Paper money in China leads to inflation and state bankruptcy
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877 |
Edict of Quierzy makes fiefs hereditary in France
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895 |
Earliest Hebrew manuscript of the Old Testament
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900 |
Mayas emigrate to Yucatan Peninsula
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900 |
Constantinople is preeminent city in the world commercially and culturally
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900 |
Castles become seats of European nobility
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907 |
Commercial treaties between Kiev and Constantinople
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935 |
Wang Chien establishes centralized monarchy in China
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950 |
Vikings develop art of shipbuilding and discover Greenland
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966 |
Zenith of Fujiwara family in Japan
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