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| 814 |
| | | Charlemagne dies and his son Louis the Pious inherits the whole, now greatly extended, Frankish empire | |
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| c. 816 |
| | | Work begins in Rheims on the Utrecht Psalter, an outstanding example of the Carolingian illuminated manuscript | |
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| c. 820 |
| | | The Venetians move their administration from the island of Torcello to the Rialto | |
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| c. 825 |
| | | The discovery of the supposed remains of the apostle St James makes Santiago de Compostela a new centre of European pilgrimage | |
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| c. 825 |
| | | Viking tribes known as the Rus are established as traders in the region of Novgorod | |
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| 827 |
| | | The Arabs get a foothold in Sicily and begin a slow process, not complete till AD 965, of squeezing the Byzantines out of the island | |
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| 828 |
| | | The Venetians, acquiring from Alexandria some bones believed to be those of St Mark, build St Mark's to house the valuable relic | |
|  | St.Mark's, Venice. Mosaic
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| 838 |
| | | Vikings from Norway capture Dublin and establish a Norse kingdom in Ireland | |
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| 843 |
| | | The iconoclastic controversy ends when Theodora, widow of the emperor Theophilus, officially sanctions the veneration of icons | |
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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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