0000's The 10th Century CE 900s CE
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886-912 Leo VI, the Wise
900 Vikings raid along Mediterranean coast
900 Alfonso III of Castile begins reconquest of Spain
905 Sancho I founds Kingdom of Navarre
909 Rise of the Shi ite Fatimid dynasty		 out1.gif (96 bytes) 910s -
886-912 Leo VI, the Wise
912-913 Alexander III
913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I

910 King Edward (Wessex) defeats Danes
910 Abbey of Cluny founded
Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte est. Normandy dukedom
911 Viking King Rollo receives land from K. Charles the Simple and becomes 1st Duke of Normandy
912 Normans become Christian
919 Vikings retake York
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913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I

926 K Aethelstan (Wessex) conquers York

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913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I
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913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I

941 Rus Vikings attack Constantinople
944 King Edmund I (Wessex) expels Norse from Northumbria

al-Farabi, the "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", was a scholar whose writings in Baghdad would help revive Greek philosophy in Europe.

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913-959 Constantine VII
959-963 Romanus II

950 Zenith of medieval Irish literature
936-73 Otto I the Great, king of Germany
marries Adelheid, obtains Italy & Burgandy 951
crushes son Liudolf's rebellion 953

955 Otto I defeats Magyars on the Lechfeld
959 Edgar king of united England 962 Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XII
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959-963 Romanus II
963-969 Nicephorus II
969-976 John I

962 Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor by John XII
963 Otto deposes Pope John XII

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969-976 John I

976-1025 Basil II
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976-1025 Basil II
980 End of rule of nobles in Rome
987-96 King Hugh starts French Capetian dynasty
989 Russia converted to Christianity		 out9.gif (96 bytes) 990s
 976-1025 Basil II

994 Cluny monastic reform 996-1026 Richard II, duke of Normandy
Civil War in Rome 996

1st Millennium 900s