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The 8th century is the period from 701 - 800 in accordance with the Julian Calendar in the Christian Era .


EVENTS

• The Iberian Peninsula is conquered by Arab and Berber Muslims , thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost eight centuries of Muslim presence there.


• Sometime this century, Beowulf is probably composed.


• The Pictish peoples of Scotland design the first European triangular Harp


• Borobodur , the famous Indonesian Buddhist structure, begins construction, probably as a non-Buddhist Shrine .


• Buddhist Jataka stories are translated into Syriac and Arabic as Kalilag And Damnag .


• An account of Buddha 's life is translated into Greek by Saint John Of Damascus , and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat .


• The Nara Period begins in Japan .


• The Moravian Principality and Nitrian Principality arise in central Europe (see Great Moravia )


• Many Volga Bulgarians convert to Islam .


• The very first Viking raid is carried out on the abbey of Lindisfarne in northern England in 793 .


• Kanem-Bornu arises north of Lake Chad .

SIGNIFICANT PERSONS

• Alcuin , English monk, scholar, and teacher


• Charlemagne , king of the Franks from 771 to 814


• Charles Martel


• The Venerable Bede , English scholar


• Pippin The Younger


• Harun Al-Rashid , fifth Abbasid Caliph


• Li Po , Chinese Poet


• Du Fu , Chinese Poet


• Dae Jo Yeong , founder of ancient Korean state, Balhae

INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, INTRODUCTIONS

• heavy plow in use in the Rhine valley


• horsecollar in use in Northern Europe in 8th or 9th Century - perhaps introduced from Asia


• Paper making introduced from China to Arabs


• beginning of the decline of the Classical Maya Civilization


• ca. 770: Iron Horseshoe s come into common use

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