What happened in the 10th century

World14

• AD 907Zhu Quanzhong deposes Emperor Ai of Tang and establishes a new Later Liang dynasty.
• AD 928Ziyarid dynasty is established in northern Iran.
• c. AD 950The beginning of the Medieval Warm Period.
• Traditional date for the arrival of White Buffalo Calf Woman
• Golden age of the Ancestral Puebloans (Pueblo II Era)
• An earthquake hits the Seattle Fault c. 900-930
• Viking groups settle in northern France.
• Incursions of Magyar (Hungarian) cavalry throughout Western Europe (47 expeditions in Germany, Italy and France, 899–970). of 919–920]]
• Lions become extinct in Europe by this date, with the last dying in Caucasus.
• Hops first mentioned in connection with beer brewing.
• AD 960Zhao Kuangyin establishes Song dynasty.
• AD 968Battle of Silistra between Kievan Rus and Bulgars.
• AD 975The Siege of Tripoli ends in an Egyptian victory over the Byzantine Army.
• AD 980Dynastic marriage between princess Mahendradatta of Javanese Isyanas and king Udayana of Balinese Warmadewas.

North America1

• The Mississippian culture begins in present-day Southern United States

Europe20

• AD 907Three German armies led by Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria, which entered the Hungarian territory in order to expel the Hungarians from the Carpathian Basin, are annihilated by the Hungarian army at the Battle of Pressburg.
• AD 907Loire Vikings overrun Brittany; Breton court flees to the England of Edward the Elder.
• AD 910Petar of Serbia, prince of Serbia, baptised a Christian.
• AD 911The Viking Rollo granted County of Rouen by France: official foundation of Normandy.
• AD 925The medieval Croatian state becomes a unified kingdom under King Tomislav
• AD 927Kingdom of England becomes a unified state.
• AD 927official recognition of an independent national Church in Europe, the Bulgarian Patriarchate.
• AD 936Alan II, with support from Æthelstan, commences the reconquest of Brittany.
• c. AD 936Gorm the Old becomes the first recognized king of Denmark, and thus the Danish Monarchy is founded.
• Emperor Simeon the Great solidifies the First Bulgarian Empire as one of the most powerful states in Europe.
• Foundation of Cluny, first federated monastic order.
• Collapse of Great Moravia.
• Late 10th or early 11th century: The Archangel Michael icon, is made. It is now kept at the Treasury of the Cathedral of Saint Mark, Venice.
• AD 955The Battle of Lechfeld (10 August 955) sees a decisive victory for Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, over the Hungarian harka Bulcsú and the chieftains Lél (Lehel) and Súr.
• c. AD 1000Establishment of the Eastern Settlement and Western Settlement in Greenland.

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Asia26

• AD 907Sumbing volcano erupts, according to Rukam inscription.]]
• AD 907King Balitung creates the Mantyasih inscription containing the list of Mataram kings, moves the capital from Mamratipura to Poh Pitu, and expands Prambanan temple.
• AD 910Parantaka I of the Chola dynasty drives out the Pandyan from southern India into Lanka (now Sri Lanka), which he also eventually conquers.
• AD 914The Warmadewa dynasty rules Bali.
• AD 919the first use of gunpowder in battle occurs with the Chinese Battle of Langshan Jiang (Wolf Mountain River), where the Wuyue naval fleet under Qian Yuanguan defeats the Wu fleet. Qian had used flamethrowers ignited by gunpowder fuses to burn the Wu fleet.
• AD 928During the reign of King Wawa, the capital of Mataram kingdom in Kewu Plain is devastated, probably by the massive eruption of Mount Merapi.
• AD 929Mpu Sindok moves the seat of power of the Mataram Kingdom from Kewu Plain in Central Java to Tamwlang in East Java and establishes Isyana dynasty. The shift is probably as a result of the eruption of Mount Merapi and/or invasion from Srivijaya.
• AD 936Goryeo dynasty unifies Later Three Kingdoms of Korea.
• AD 937Mpu Sindok moves the capital again from Tamwlang to Watugaluh, both near bank of Brantas River in modern Jombang in East Java.
• AD 938Battle of Bạch Đằng with a victory for the Tĩnh Hải Quân forces under the rule of Ngô Quyền put an end to nearly 1,000 years of Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam and marked a new beginning to the Vietnamese history.
• Construction begins on the Brihadeeswarar Temple of India, during the reign of Rajaraja Chola I.
• Seafarers and merchants from Champa had contacts with Brunei and Ma-i.
• Buddhist temple construction commences at Bagan, Burma
• AD 971Song dynasty recorded the ancient sovereign state of Ma-i on the list of states conducting trade in the south seas and the government's efforts to regulate and tax this "luxurious" trade.
• AD 999Samanid dynasty was defeated and conquered by Ghaznavids.

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Middle East6

• c. AD 909The Fatimid Caliphate arises in Kabylie, Kutama Tribe.
• Second half of the 10th century: Page with David the Psalmist, from the Paris Psalter, is made. It is now kept at Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris.
• AD 969Cairo is founded near Fustat.
• AD 972Cairo becomes the new Egyptian capital, and the seat of the Fatimid Caliphate.
• AD 973Failure of the Second Qarmatian invasion of Egypt.
• c. AD 980Al-Azhar University is established in Cairo during the rule of the Fatimid dynasty.

Latin America4

• Collapse of the central lowland Maya civilization. Post-Classic Maya period begins. Chichen Itza becomes a regional capital on the Yucatán Peninsula
• Rise of the Toltecs in Mexico
• Earliest known occurrence in Mexico of Lost-wax casting.
• AD 987Ah Mekat Tutul Xiu unified Uxmal, Mayapan, and Chichen Itza founding The League of Mayapan.

Africa3

• c. AD 948The Nri Kingdom in what is now Southeastern Nigeria starts.
• The Nubian kingdoms of Makuria and Alodia reaches a golden age of prosperity and military power
• c. AD 980Queen Gudit leads her rebellion against the Aksumite dynasty of Abyssinia.

Oceania1

• c. AD 950Formation of the Tu'i Tonga Empire and of the Tuʻi Tonga dynasty in Tonga.