{"id":76,"date":"2010-02-04T02:01:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/?p=76"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:34:11","slug":"9thcentury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/9thcentury\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Century History"},"content":{"rendered":"

800<\/strong> Coronation of Charlemagne, king of the Franks and now first Holy Roman Emperor, on Christmas day. Crowned by Pope Leo III as “Augustus, crowned of God, emperor of the Romans” in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, he would become Charles I of France, called Charles the Great.<\/p>\n

802<\/strong> Byzantine empress Irene deposed and exiled to the island of Lesbos: minister of finance Nicephorus I succeeds her.<\/p>\n

805<\/strong> Japanese Buddhist priest Saicho returns from China to Japan and popularizes the medicinal value of tea. <\/p>\n

807<\/strong> Abbasid caliph Harun al Rashid decrees that Baghdad Christians are to wear a blue badge and Jews a yellow badge.<\/p>\n

808<\/strong> City of Fez established in Morocco by Abbasid King Idris.<\/p>\n

809<\/strong> Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid dies; he will be memorialized in Arabian Nights.<\/p>\n

814<\/strong> Charlemagne dies of pleurisy. He is succeeded by his son, Louis I (the Pious).<\/p>\n

829<\/strong> Nile frozen over (happens again in 1010).<\/p>\n

840<\/strong> Emperor Louis the Pious dies. Wuzong becomes emperor of China.<\/p>\n

841<\/strong> Vikings build a settlement on the south bank of the River Liffey; it will eventually become the city of Dublin.<\/p>\n

843<\/strong> The three sons of deceased Emperor Louis the Pious sign the Treaty of Verdun, dividing the Carolingian Empire into much of what modern Europe is today.<\/p>\n

850<\/strong> Toilet paper thought be used first in China. The Taoist book of alchemy, the Classified Essentials of the Mysterious Tao of the True Origin of Things describes gunpowder. Arab scientists perfect the astrolabe, an instrument used to observe celestial bodies.<\/p>\n

858<\/strong> The Nakatomi family of Japan change its name to Fujiwara. Macedonian missionaries Cyril and Methodius invent the Cyrillic alphabet, used by Bulgarians, Russians, Serbs and others by 863.<\/p>\n

861<\/strong> Iceland discovered. Scandinavian chief Rurik founds Novgorod and names himself grand prince, inaugurating the Russian royal family that will rule until 1598.<\/p>\n

867<\/strong> Byzantine Emperor Basil I establishes the Macedonian Dynasty that will rule Byzantium until 1054.<\/p>\n

868<\/strong> The world’s first printed book<\/a> The Diamond Sutra is produced in China.<\/p>\n

869<\/strong> Greek brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius develop the Cyrillic alphabet, based on the Greek alphabet of the time, for the Slavic peoples. (The Cyrillic alphabet is now used in Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and other languages. The original alphabet had 43 letters, but the modern languages have fewer: Bulgarian 30, Russian has 32, Serbian 30, and Ukrainian 33.<\/p>\n

874<\/strong> Vikings settle in Iceland.<\/p>\n

890<\/strong> First record of an automatic instrument, an organ-building treatise called Banu Musa.<\/p>\n

896<\/strong> In England, Alfred the Great ends the threat of the Danes, who return to the mainland or settle in Northumbria and East Anglia.<\/p>\n

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