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900<\/strong> Vikings discover Greenland.<\/p>\n

906<\/strong> Annam (central Vietnam) attains independence from China.<\/p>\n

912<\/strong> Vikings and their leader, Rolo, become Christians.<\/p>\n

925<\/strong> First dyers guild established.<\/p>\n

927<\/strong> Prince Caslav Klonimirovic drives out Bulgarians, uniting (what today is) Serbia, Montenegro, Herzegovina and Bosnia to found Serbia. Orthodox Christianity is introduced as the state religion. <\/p>\n

950<\/strong> C\u00f3rdoba, Spain is Europe’s intellectual center. The Muslim city boasts medical schools, modern libraries and a paper trade. Card playing invented by Chinese harem women.<\/p>\n

960<\/strong> Mieczyslaw I becomes first ruler of Poland.<\/p>\n

962<\/strong> Mieszko founds the Piast Dynasty<\/a> in Poland, convert to Christianity. Eric the Red’s family moves to Iceland from Norway.<\/p>\n

969<\/strong> Earliest recorded mention of playing cards, found in China. Cairo, Egypt, found by Fatimid Dynasty Shiite Muslims.<\/p>\n

975<\/strong> Arabs introduce modern arithmetical notation to Europeans, making calculations easier than Roman numerals.<\/p>\n

976<\/strong> The first recorded use of the zero in Europe. Austria founded when Holy Roman Emperor Otto II gives a margravate to the Franconian count Leopold (Liutpold).<\/p>\n

982<\/strong> Eric the Red, expelled from Iceland for murder, establishes Viking colony in Greenland. 700 people followed him but only 14 of the 25 ships reach the island.<\/p>\n

987<\/strong> Hugh Capet is elected King of France. (The Capetian dynasty rules until 1328)<\/p>\n

988<\/strong> Grand Duke Vladimir of Kiev converts to Christianity, takes the name Basil in honor of the Emperor of Constantinople, marries the Emperor’s sister, Anna, and begins a general conversion of Russia.<\/p>\n

990<\/strong> Musical notation systematized.<\/p>\n

995<\/strong> Anglo-Saxon (Early Roots of English Language) Translations of The New Testament Produced.<\/p>\n

999<\/strong> Europeans fear of the end of the world.<\/p>\n

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