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| 762 |
| | The Abbasid caliphs create Baghdad as a new capital city on the Tigris | |
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| 794 |
| | The Japanese imperial court moves to a new capital city - Kyoto | |
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| c. 820 |
| | The Venetians move their administration from the island of Torcello to the Rialto | |
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| 843 |
| | The division of western Europe into three kingdoms for the sons of Louis the Pious is agreed at Verdun, with lasting consequences | |
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| 843 |
| | The central Frankish kingdom, Francia Media, becomes one of the great fault lines of European history | |
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| c. 850 |
| | As a gesture of unity, Kenneth MacAlpin brings to Scone (a Pictish royal site) a sacred coronation stone associated with the Scots | |
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| 877 |
| | The Fujiwara family creates for itself a new hereditary office, that of imperial chancellor, through which it effectively rules Japan | |
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| 882 |
| | Oleg, leader of the Rus, seizes the town of Kiev and makes his headquarters there | |
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| c. 900 |
| | Chan Chan, today the largest of the ruined Andean cities, dominates the entire length of Peru | |
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| c. 950 |
| | Leon forms a loose alliance with its southern neighbour, Castile, to become the most powerful unit in northern Spain | |
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