Islamic Golden Age
750–1258 · Event
Centuries-long cultural and scientific flowering across Abbasid Caliphate and beyond; advances in mathematics, medicine, astronomy.
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More from The Islamic Golden Age
- The Graeco-Arabic translation movement (750)
- al-Khwarizmi's al-Jabr (820)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics (1021)
- Papermaking spreads west (751)
- Avicenna's Book of Healing (1027)
- Al-Khwarizmi's book on Hindu numerals (825)
- Averroes's The Incoherence of the Incoherence (1180)
- Al-Biruni measures the Earth from a mountain (1025)
Around 750
- An Lushan Rebellion (755)
- Viking Age (793)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)
- Srivijaya Empire (650)
- Silla unifies Korea (668)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)