AD 900

Specialty Definition: 9th century

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

(8th century - 9th century - 10th century - other centuries)

Events

Beowulf might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the 8th century
Viking attacks on Europe begin
Oseberg ship burial
around 813-around 915 - period of serious Arab naval raids on shores of Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas
800-909 - rule of Aghlabids as independent dynasty in North Africa
863-879 - period of schism between eastern and western churches

Significant people

Alfred the Great
Arnulf of Carinthia
Charlemagne
Louis the Pious

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

First image of a rotary grindstone in a European source - illustration shows crank, first known use of a crank in the West (Utrecht Psalter, A.D. 843)

Decades and Years

790s 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799
800s 800 801 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809
810s 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 819
820s 820 821 822 823 824 825 826 827 828 829
830s 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 839
840s 840 841 842 843 844 845 846 847 848 849
850s 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 859
860s 860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869
870s 870 871 872 873 874 875 876 877 878 879
880s 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889
890s 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899
900s 900 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 908 909

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "9th century."

Anagrams: AD 900

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "0-0-9-a-d"
	-3 letters: ad.
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Alternative Orthography: AD 900

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 39 30 30

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 00100000 00111001 00110000 00110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#32 &#57 &#48 &#48

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0039 0030 0030

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)