al-Razi (Rhazes)
865–925 · Person
Polymath physician; distinguished smallpox from measles, wrote massive medical encyclopaedias.
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- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543)
- Hippocrates (460 BCE)
- Harvey describes the circulation of the blood (1628)
Around 865
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Viking Age (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)