- Europe
Charlemagne crowned Emperor
Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne in Rome, reviving the Western imperial title.
Era: The Franks & the Birth of France
Sources: Charlemagne · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Europe
Coronation of Charlemagne
Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans in Rome, reviving the western imperial title and binding the German lands into a renewed Christian empire.
Era: Germania, Rome and the Frankish Inheritance
Sources: Charlemagne · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Europe
Charlemagne crowned emperor in Rome
Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne emperor in Rome, binding Italy to the Frankish and later Holy Roman imperial order and to the papacy.
Era: Medieval Italy: Papacy, Communes and Normans
Sources: Italy (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
Aghlabid dynasty
The Aghlabids rule Ifriqiya from Kairouan, rebuild the Great Mosque in stone, and conquer Sicily.
Era: Islam, Kairouan & the Medieval Dynasties
Sources: The Great Mosque of Kairouan · Smarthistory, History of Tunisia · Wikipedia
- Europe
Treaty of Verdun
Charlemagne's grandsons divided the Carolingian empire into three kingdoms. East Francia, the German-speaking eastern share, became the foundation of the future Kingdom of Germany.
Era: Germania, Rome and the Frankish Inheritance
Sources: Treaty of Verdun · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Europe
Byzantine and Bulgarian borderland
The region passed between the Byzantine Empire, the First Bulgarian Empire and rising Serbian principalities, a contested frontier of the medieval Balkans before the Nemanjic ascendancy.
Era: Ancient Dardania, Rome and Byzantium
Sources: History of Kosovo (ancient Dardania to the medieval period) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Kosovo: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Europe
Reign of Svatopluk I
Under Svatopluk I Great Moravia reached its greatest extent and won recognition from the papacy, becoming the dominant power of the middle Danube before the state fragmented after his death.
Era: Great Moravia and the Mission of Cyril and Methodius
Sources: Svatopluk, prince of Moravia · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Moravia (and Great Moravia) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Europe
The Placito Feretrano
The earliest surviving document to name the community of San Marino records a legal dispute over its liberties, the first firm attestation that a self-governing community existed on Mount Titano.
Era: Saint Marinus and the Mountain Commune
Sources: Origins of San Marino - the world's oldest Republic · SanMarinoSite
- Asia
The reign of Ismail Samani
Ismail I ibn Ahmad unifies the Samanid realm and rules from Bukhara as one of the dynasty's most famous sovereigns; he is revered today as a founding symbol of the Tajik nation.
Era: The Samanid Golden Age
Sources: Ismāʿīl I ibn Aḥmad · Encyclopædia Britannica, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies · Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
- Europe
The golden age of Simeon the Great
Tsar Simeon I expanded Bulgaria toward three seas, took the title of tsar and raised the church to a patriarchate, presiding over a cultural golden age centred on his capital, Great Preslav.
Era: Thracians, Asparukh's Khanate and the First Bulgarian Empire
Sources: Simeon I · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Bulgaria · Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria
Politics & PowerThe 9th century
Politics & Power in the 9th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged politics and power — dynasties, constitutions, revolutions and changes of regime, narrowed to the 9th century — 10 of them, drawn from 9 nations, running from 800 to 893. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 10
- Nations
- 9
- Earliest
- 800
- Latest
- 893
- Europe
- 8
- Africa
- 1
- Asia
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.