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|- ! A.D. !! |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   802. || Egbert, formerly an English refugee at the court of Charlemagne, established himself as King of Wessex. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   810. || Krum of Bulgaria defeated and killed the Emperor Nicephorus. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   814. || Charlemagne died, Louis the Pious succeeds him. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   828. || Egbert became first King of England. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   843. || Louis the Pious died, and the Carlovingian Empire went to pieces. Until 962 there was no regular succession of Holy Roman Emperors, though the title appeared intermittently. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   850. || About this time Rurik (a Northman) became ruler of Novgorod and Kieff. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   852. || Boris first Christian King of Bulgaria (to 884). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   865. || The fleet of the Russians (Northmen) threatened Constantinople. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   886. || The Treaty of Alfred of England and Guthrum the Dane, establishing the Danes in the Danelaw. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   904. || Russian (Northmen) fleet off Constantinople. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   912. || Rolf the Ganger established himself in Normandy. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   919. || Henry the Fowler elected King of Germany. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   928. || Marozia imprisoned Pope John X. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   931. || John XI Pope (to 936). |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   936. || Otto I became King of Germany in succession to his father, Henry the Fowler. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   941. || Russian fleet again threatened Constantinople. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   955. || John XII Pope. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   960. || Northern Sung Dynasty began in China. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   962. || Otto I, King of Germany, crowned Emperor (first Saxon Emperor) by John XII. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   963. || Otto deposed John XII. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   969. || Separate Fatimite Caliphate set up in Egypt. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   973. || Otto II. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   983. || Otto III. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" |   987. || Hugh Capet became King of France. End of the Carlovingian line of French kings. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1013. || Canute became King of England, Denmark, and Norway. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1037. || Avicenna of Bokhara, the Prince of Physicians, died. |- valign="top" | style="width: 3em;" | 1043. || Russian fleet threatened Constantinople. |}