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Author: Rock Justice
Chinese printing press
0868-12-01 00:00:00 Nearly 600 years before Gutenberg, Chinese monks were setting ink to paper using a method known as block printing, in which wooden blocks are coated with ink and pressed to sheets of paper.[…]
Invention of Gunpowder
0850-12-01 00:00:00 Chinese scientists had been playing with saltpeter — a common name for the powerful oxidizing agent potassium nitrate — in medical compounds for centuries when one industrious individual thought to mix it with[…]
Hindu Arabic Numerals
0825-12-01 00:00:00 Decimal place-value notation from India appears in Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi’s book on mathematical algorithms. 178000
Algebra observed by al-Khwarizmi
0820-12-01 00:00:00 Muslim influence on mathematics, more to come. 177000
Charlemagne – Emperor
0800-12-01 00:00:00 Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and[…]
Vikings raid England
0793-12-01 00:00:00 In the summer of the year 789 AD, while “the Innocent English people, spread through their plains, were enjoying themselves in tranquillity and yoking their oxen to the plough”, new was carried to[…]
Abbasid Caliphate
0750-12-01 00:00:00 Would become the longest lasting caliphate, until 1519 when conquered and annexed into the Ottoman Empire. 174000
Ummayad Caliphate
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Battle of Nahāvand – Muslims conquer Persia
0642-12-01 00:00:00 It was a decisive victory for the Rashidun Caliphate and the Persians consequently lost the surrounding cities including Sephahan (renamed Isfahan). 173000