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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;802. || Egbert, formerly an English refugee at the court of Charlemagne, established himself as King of Wessex.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;810. || Krum of Bulgaria defeated and killed the Emperor Nicephorus.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;814. || Charlemagne died, Louis the Pious succeeds him.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;828. || Egbert became first King of England.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;843. || Louis the Pious died, and the Carlovingian Empire went to pieces. Until 962 there was no regular succession of Holy Roman Emperors, though the title appeared intermittently.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;850. || About this time Rurik (a Northman) became ruler of Novgorod and Kieff.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;852. || Boris first Christian King of Bulgaria (to 884).
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;865. || The fleet of the Russians (Northmen) threatened Constantinople.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;886. || The Treaty of Alfred of England and Guthrum the Dane, establishing the Danes in the Danelaw.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;904. || Russian (Northmen) fleet off Constantinople.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;912. || Rolf the Ganger established himself in Normandy.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;919. || Henry the Fowler elected King of Germany.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;928. || Marozia imprisoned Pope John X.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;931. || John XI Pope (to 936).
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;936. || Otto I became King of Germany in succession to his father, Henry the Fowler.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;941. || Russian fleet again threatened Constantinople.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;955. || John XII Pope.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;960. || Northern Sung Dynasty began in China.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;962. || Otto I, King of Germany, crowned Emperor (first Saxon Emperor) by John XII.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;963. || Otto deposed John XII.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;969. || Separate Fatimite Caliphate set up in Egypt.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;973. || Otto II.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;983. || Otto III.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | &#160;&#160;987. || Hugh Capet became King of France. End of the Carlovingian line of French kings.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1013. || Canute became King of England, Denmark, and Norway.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1037. || Avicenna of Bokhara, the Prince of Physicians, died.
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 * style="width: 3em;" | 1043. || Russian fleet threatened Constantinople.
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