Papermaking spreads west
c. 751 · Event
Chinese papermakers captured at Talas, the story goes, teach their craft in Samarkand; within a century Baghdad has paper mills, and Europe's book culture follows.
On these timelines: The Islamic Golden Age, The Silk Road & the Steppe, Master, Science & Technology, Islam
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- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- The Graeco-Arabic translation movement (750)
- al-Khwarizmi's al-Jabr (820)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics (1021)
- 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 751
- 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)
- Silla unifies Korea (668)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Sunni-Shia split (656)