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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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| 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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| 986 |
| | | The Khitan, a tribe from eastern Mongolia, fortify Beijing and make it their capital city | |
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| 999 |
| | | Mahmud, a Turk, builds an empire based on Ghazni (in modern Afghanistan) | |
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