9th century

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Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	800s 810s 820s 830s 840s 850s 860s 870s 880s 890s

Contents 1 Overview 2 Events 3 Significant people 4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 5 Decades and years

Overview

Events

• An unknown event causes the decline of the Maya Classical Era
• Beowulf might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the 8th century
• Reign of Charlemagne, and concurrent (and controversially labeled) Carolingian Renaissance in western Europe
• Large-scale Viking attacks on Europe begin, devestating countless numbers of people
• Oseberg ship burial
• The Magyars arrive in what is now Hungary, forcing the Serbs and Bulgars south of the Danube.
• The Tukolor settle in the Senegal river valley.
• Muslim traders settle in the north-west and south-east of Madagascar.
• around 813-around 915 - period of serious Arab naval raids on shores of Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas
• 870 - Prague Castle founded
• 800-909 - rule of Aghlabids as independent dynasty in North Africa
• 850-875 - The first Norse settlers arrive on Iceland.
• 863-879 - period of schism between eastern and western churches
• Late 9th century: Bulgaria stretches from the mouth of the Danube to Epirus and Bosnia.
• In Italy, some cities became free republics: for instance Forlì, in the 889.
• The Christian Nubian kingdom reaches its peak of prosperity and military power. (Early history of Sudan)

Significant people

• Alfred the Great
• Arnulf of Carinthia
• Charlemagne
• Louis the Pious
• Adi Sankara

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Vulgar Latin begins to devolve into various Romance languages
• First image of a rotary grindstone in a European source - illustration shows crank, first known use of a crank in the West (Utrecht Psalter, A.D. 843)
• Invention of gunpowder by Chinese Taoist Alchemists

Decades and years

790s	790	791	792	793	794	795	796	797	798	799
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820s	820	821	822	823	824	825	826	827	828	829
830s	830	831	832	833	834	835	836	837	838	839
840s	840	841	842	843	844	845	846	847	848	849
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860s	860	861	862	863	864	865	866	867	868	869
870s	870	871	872	873	874	875	876	877	878	879
880s	880	881	882	883	884	885	886	887	888	889
890s	890	891	892	893	894	895	896	897	898	899
900s	900	901	902	903	904	905	906	907	908	909