- Africa
Ghana Empire dominates the trade routes
The Soninke kingdom of Ghana (Wagadou) controls the trans-Saharan gold-and-salt trade, with its influence reaching into the south of present-day Mauritania.
Era: The Ghana Empire and the Sanhaja Sahara
Sources: Mauritania · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Mauritania · Wikipedia
- Asia
Traditional founding of Kathmandu
Tradition credits Raja Gunakamadeva with founding the town of Kathmandu during the Licchavi period; it would later give its name to the valley and the nation's capital.
Era: Ancient Kingdoms: Kirata and Licchavi
Sources: Nepal — History (Himalayas, Monarchy, Unification) · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Asia
Gopala founds the Pala dynasty
Gopala is raised to power amid disorder and founds the Pala dynasty, a Buddhist imperial line that would rule Bengal and Bihar for some four centuries and spread Buddhism as far as Tibet.
Era: Buddhist and Hindu Bengal: the Pala and Sena Dynasties
Sources: Pala dynasty · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Europe
The Donation of Pepin creates the Papal States
After Pepin the Short forced the Lombards to surrender their conquests, he restored the lands of central Italy to the pope, creating the Papal States and the basis of papal temporal power.
Era: The Rise of Temporal Power and the Papal States
Sources: Papal States · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Papal States (summary) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Al-Mansur founds Baghdad
The Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founds Baghdad on the Tigris as his 'City of Peace', a circular capital that swiftly becomes one of the world's largest and wealthiest cities.
Era: Abbasid Baghdad and the Islamic Golden Age
Sources: al-Manṣūr — Abbasid caliph · Encyclopædia Britannica, Iraq — The Abbasid Caliphate · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Africa
Idris I and the founding of the dynasty
Idris ibn Abdallah, a sharif fleeing Abbasid persecution, wins the allegiance of the Awraba Berbers near Walila and founds the Idrisid dynasty, Morocco's first Muslim state.
Era: Islam and the Idrisid Dynasty
Sources: Idrisid dynasty · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Idrisid dynasty · New World Encyclopedia
- Europe
The Charlemagne tradition and the Marca Hispanica
Andorran tradition, recalled in the anthem 'El Gran Carlemany', credits Charlemagne with freeing the valleys from the Moors and granting their charter; the region lay within the Carolingian frontier zone of the Marca Hispanica.
Era: Charlemagne, the Marca Hispanica and the Bishops of Urgell
Sources: El Gran Carlemany: National Anthem of Andorra and the Charlemagne tradition · nationalanthems.info, Andorra: History, Facts & Points of Interest · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Formation in the 8th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them, narrowed to the 8th century — 7 of them, drawn from 7 nations, running from 700 to 790. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 7
- Nations
- 7
- Earliest
- 700
- Latest
- 790
- Asia
- 3
- Africa
- 2
- Europe
- 2
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.