0000's The 10th Century CE 900s CE
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886-912 Leo VI, the Wise

900 Vikings raid along Mediterranean coast
905 Sancho I founds Kingdom of Navarre
909 Rise of the Shi ite Fatimid dynasty

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886-912 Leo VI, the Wise
912-913 Alexander III
913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I

910 K. Edward (Wessex) defeats Danes
910 Abbey of Cluny founded
911 Viking K. Rollo receives land from K. Charles the Simple and becomes 1st Duke of Normandy
912 Normans become Christian
919 Vikings retake York
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913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I

926 K Aethelstan (Wessex) conquers York

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913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I
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913-959 Constantine VII
919-944 Romanus I

941 Rus Vikings attack Constantinople
944 K. Edmund I (Wessex) expels Norse from Northumbria

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913-959 Constantine VII
959-963 Romanus II

950 Zenith of medieval Irish literature
955 Otto I defeats Magyars on the Lechfeld
959 Edgar king of united England
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959-963 Romanus II
963-969 Nicephorus II
969-976 John I

962 Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor by John XII
963 Otto deposes Pope John XII

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969-976 John I
976-1025 Basil II
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976-1025 Basil II

989 Russia converted to Christianity

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976-1025 Basil II

994 Cluny monastic reform

1st Millennium 900s