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| c. 950 |
| | | Toltecs move into the valley of Mexico from the north and establish a capital city at Tula | |
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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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| c. 950 |
| | | So many Slavs are captured and sold, in the movement eastwards of the Germans, that their name becomes the European word for a slave | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | The Byzantine empire enjoys a revival, bringing the Slavs within the Greek Orthodox fold and winning victories against the Muslims | |
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| c. 960 |
| | | A fair-skinned and bearded king, by the name of Quetzalcoatl, is exiled from Tula but says that he will be back in a 'One Reed' year. | |
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| 960 |
| | | A warlord, Zhao Kuangyin, establishes a new Chinese dynasty - the Song | |
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| c. 960 |
| | | Harald Bluetooth is baptized a Christian and unites the whole of Denmark as a single kingdom. | |
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| 962 |
| | | The imperial coronation of Otto I by Pope John XII in St Peter's puts in place the formal role of a Holy Roman emperor | |
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| 965 |
| | | Mieszko, pagan chieftain of the Poles, marries a Christian Czech princess and brings all his people into the Roman Catholic fold | |
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| 969 |
| | | The Fatimids establish a new capital city on the Nile, calling it Al Kahira ('the victorious'), which becomes reduced to Cairo | |
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