Year
|
Description
|
Answer
|
996
|
This present-day country is named for the first time - as "Ostarrîchi"
|
Austria
|
982
|
Erik the Red settles on this island
|
Greenland
|
978
|
Construction begins on St. Mark's Basilica in this city
|
Venice
|
969
|
This African city is founded by the Fatimid general Jawhar
|
Cairo
|
961
|
The Byzantines reconquer this Mediterranean island
|
Crete
|
960
|
This "musical" Chinese dynasty is established
|
Song
|
958
|
This Danish king gains power... 1,039 years later, a wireless technology would be named after him
|
Harald Bluetooth
|
944
|
This city becomes capital of the Khmer Empire
|
Angkor
|
878
|
This great Anglo-Saxon king defeats the heathen army at the Battle of Edington
|
Alfred the Great
|
874
|
Ingólfr Arnarson becomes the first person to settle on this island (according to the sagas)
|
Iceland
|
850
|
The Abbasid Caliphate reaches its greatest extent with this city as its capital
|
Baghdad
|
845
|
This city on the Seine is sacked by the Vikings
|
Paris
|
843
|
Kenneth MacAlpin I becomes the first king of this country
|
Scotland
|
829
|
This national animal of Wales appears for the first time
|
Welsh Dragon
|
820
|
This branch of equation-solving mathematics is invented by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
|
Algebra
|
814
|
This great Frankish ruler dies
|
Charlemagne
|
800s
|
This system, where vassals pay homage to lords, becomes common in Western Europe
|
Feudalism
|
800s
|
This Mesoamerican society collapses. We're still trying to figure out why.
|
Classic Maya
|
800s
|
While looking for an elixir of immortality, Chinese alchemists invent this mortality-causing substance
|
Gunpowder
|
800s
|
This number is "invented" in India
|
Zero
|
Would it be possible to change "alchemists discover" to "alchemists create," or something similar, though? I spent ages trying as many toxic elements, minerals, etc. as I could remember, on the basis that it was a naturally occurring substance.
poor Greenland...