The Hammer and the Cross: A New History of the Vikings (Ferguson, 2009)
850 · Resource
Robert Ferguson's history of the Norse world — raiders, traders and settlers from Lindisfarne to Vinland.
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Around 850
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Viking Age (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)
- Diamond Sutra printed (868)