• c.
950: The beginning of the
Medieval Warm Period.
Africa • The
Nubian kingdoms of
Makuria and
Alodia reaches a golden age of prosperity and military power • c.
909: The
Fatimid Caliphate arises in
Kabylie,
Kutama Tribe. • c.
948: The
Nri Kingdom in what is now Southeastern
Nigeria starts. •
969: Cairo is founded near Fustat by the
Fatimid dynasty. • c.
980:
Al-Azhar University is established in
Cairo by the
Fatimid dynasty. • c.
980: Queen
Gudit leads her rebellion against the Aksumite dynasty of Abyssinia.
Americas • Collapse of the central lowland
Maya civilization. Post-Classic Maya period begins.
Chichen Itza becomes a regional capital on the
Yucatán Peninsula • Rise of the
Toltecs in
Mexico • Golden age of the
Ancestral Puebloans (
Pueblo II Era) • An earthquake hits the Seattle Fault c. 900-930 • The
Mississippian culture begins in present-day
Southern United States •
987: Ah Mekat Tutul Xiu unified
Uxmal,
Mayapan, and
Chichen Itza founding The
League of Mayapan.
Asia goddess was created in Kaveripakkam in
Tamil Nadu,
India, during the 10th century. •
Buddhist temple construction commences at
Bagan,
Burma • Seafarers and merchants from
Champa had contacts with Brunei and
Ma-i. •
907:
Zhu Quanzhong deposes
Emperor Ai of Tang and establishes a new
Later Liang dynasty. • 907:
Sumbing volcano erupts, according to Rukam inscription. • 907: King
Balitung creates the
Mantyasih inscription containing the list of
Mataram kings, moves the capital from Mamratipura to Poh Pitu, and expands Prambanan temple. •
910:
Parantaka I of the
Chola dynasty drives out the
Pandyan from southern
India into Lanka (now
Sri Lanka), which he also eventually conquers. •
914: The
Warmadewa dynasty rules
Bali. •
919: the first use of
gunpowder in battle occurs with the Chinese
Battle of Langshan Jiang (Wolf Mountain River), where the
Wuyue naval fleet under
Qian Yuanguan defeats the
Wu fleet. Qian had used
flamethrowers ignited by gunpowder fuses to burn the Wu fleet. •
928:
Ziyarid dynasty is established in northern Iran. • 928: During the reign of
King Wawa, the capital of
Mataram kingdom in
Kewu Plain is devastated, probably by the massive eruption of
Mount Merapi. •
929:
Mpu Sindok moves the seat of power of the Mataram Kingdom from Kewu Plain in
Central Java to Tamwlang in
East Java and establishes
Isyana dynasty. The shift is probably as a result of the eruption of Mount Merapi and/or invasion from
Srivijaya. •
930s:
Persian
Shia Buyid dynasty establishes and controls central and western part of
Iran as well as most of
Iraq. •
936:
Goryeo dynasty unifies
Later Three Kingdoms of Korea. •
938:
Battle of Bạch Đằng with a victory for the
Tĩnh Hải Quân forces under the rule of
Ngô Quyền put an end to nearly 1,000 years of
Chinese imperial domination in
Vietnam and marked a new beginning to the Vietnamese history. •
937:
Mpu Sindok moves the capital again from Tamwlang to Watugaluh, both near bank of
Brantas River in modern
Jombang in
East Java. •
960:
Zhao Kuangyin establishes
Song dynasty. • 960:
Seljuks convert to Islam. •
965:
Khazar kingdom is attacked and defeated by
Kievan Rus. •
971:
Song dynasty recorded the ancient sovereign state of
Ma-i on the list of states conducting trade in the south seas and the government's efforts to regulate and tax this "luxurious" trade. •
975:
Ghaznavids dynasty, as the first
Turk Sultanate, was established in
Central Asia. •
979: Song dynasty reunites China. •
980: Dynastic marriage between princess
Mahendradatta of Javanese
Isyanas and king
Udayana of Balinese
Warmadewas. • Coastal cities on the
Malay Peninsula are the seed for the first recorded
Malay kingdoms. •
990: King
Dharmawangsa of Mataram kingdom launches a naval invasion on
Palembang in an unsuccessful attempt to conquer Srivijaya. (to 1006) • 990:
Airlangga, son of King Udayana and Queen Mahendradatta was born in Bali. •
996: Dharmawangsa commissioned the translation of the
Mahabharata into
Old Javanese. •
999:
Samanid dynasty was defeated and conquered by
Ghaznavids.
Europe . •
Viking groups settle in northern France. •
907: Three German armies led by
Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria, which entered the Hungarian territory in order to expel the Hungarians from the Carpathian Basin, is annihilated by the Hungarian army at the
Battle of Pressburg. • Foundation of
Cluny, first federated
monastic order. • Emperor
Simeon the Great solidifies the
First Bulgarian Empire as one of the most powerful states in Europe. • Incursions of
Magyar (Hungarian) cavalry throughout Western Europe (47 expeditions in
Germany,
Italy and
France,
899–
970). • Collapse of
Great Moravia. •
Lions become extinct in Europe by this date, with the last dying in
Caucasus. •
907: Loire Vikings overrun
Brittany; Breton court flees to the
England of
Edward the Elder. •
911: The Viking
Rollo granted
County of Rouen by
France: official foundation of
Normandy. •
917: (20 August 917) the
Bulgarians destroyed the Byzantine army in the
Battle of Anchialus, one of the bloodiest battles in the Middle Ages. •
927: official recognition of the first independent national Church in Europe, the
Bulgarian Patriarchate. • 927:
Kingdom of England becomes a unified state. • c.
936:
Gorm the Old becomes the first recognized king of
Denmark, and thus the Danish Monarchy is founded. • 936:
Alan II, with support from
Æthelstan, commences the reconquest of
Brittany. •
955:
The Battle of Lechfeld (10 August 955) sees a decisive victory for
Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, over the Hungarian
harka Bulcsú and the chieftains
Lél (Lehel) and
Súr. •
966:
Mieszko I, first duke of
Poland, baptised a Christian. •
968:
Battle of Silistra between Kievan Rus and Bulgars. •
985–
986: The
Norseman Erik the Red begins the colonisation of
Greenland. •
925: The medieval Croatian state becomes a
unified kingdom under King
Tomislav •
988:
Vladimir I, Prince of
Kievan Rus', baptised a Christian • c.
1000: Establishment of the
Eastern Settlement and
Western Settlement in
Greenland. • 1000:
Sweyn Forkbeard conquers
Norway. • Second half of the 10th century: Page with David the Psalmist, from the
Paris Psalter, is made. It is now kept at
Bibliothéque Nationale,
Paris. • Late 10th or early 11th century: The
Archangel Michael icon, is made. It is now kept at the
Treasury of the Cathedral of Saint Mark,
Venice.
Oceania • c. 950: Formation of the
Tu'i Tonga Empire and of the
Tuʻi Tonga dynasty in
Tonga. ==Inventions, discoveries, introductions==