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Asia

• Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of Hubaekje
  Hubaekje
  
  Hubaekje, or Later Baekje, was one of the Later Three Kingdoms of Korea, along with Taebong and Silla. It was officially founded by the disaffected Silla general Gyeon Hwon in 900, and fell to King Taejo of Goryeo's Goryeo army in 936....
   in southwestern Korea
  Korea
  
  Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
  .
• Merchants from southwest Asia
  Asia
  
  Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
   and India
  India
  
  India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
   settle on the East African
  Africa
  
  Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
   coast, trading gold
  Gold
  
  Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
  , beads and metal
  Metal
  
  In chemistry, a metal is a chemical element whose atoms readily lose electrons to form positive ions , and form metallic bonds between other metal atoms and ionic bonds between nonmetal atoms....
   for ivory
  Ivory
  
  File:Ivory decoration.jpgIvory is formed from dentine and constitutes the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth and narwhal....
   and slaves.
• Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon by the the datu
  Datu
  
  Datu or datto is the title for chieftains and monarchs in the Philippines. Together with sultan and raja, they are also titles of royalty and currently used in Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines and Indonesia....
   of Tondo, as represented Jayadewa, lord minister of Pila
  Pila, Laguna
  
  Pila is a 4th class urban Philippine municipality in the Philippine province of Laguna province, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 37,427 people in 7,750 households....
  , which released them of all their debts as inscribed in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription
  Laguna Copperplate Inscription
  
  The Laguna Copperplate inscription is the first written document found in a Languages of the Philippines. The plate was found in 1989 by Alfredo E....
  .

Europe

• Harald Fairhair (of the Yngling
  Yngling
  
  The Ynglings were the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty. It can refer to the following Norse clans:*The Scylfings , the semi-legendary royal Swedish clan during the Age of Migrations, with kings such as Eadgils, Onela and Ohthere....
   or Scilfing Dynasty) subdues the petty kings of Norway
  Norway
  
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
   and conquers the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

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Religion

• February — Pope Benedict IV
  Pope Benedict IV
  
  Benedict IV was Pope from 900 to 903. He was the son of Mammalus, a native of Rome. The tenth-century historian Frodoard, who nicknamed him the Great, commended his noble birth and public generosity....
   succeeds Pope John IX
  Pope John IX
  
  John IX, Pope from 898 to 900, not only confirmed the judgment of his predecessor Pope Theodore II in granting Christian burial to Pope Formosus , but at a council held at Ravenna decreed that the records of the synod which had condemned him should be burned....
   as the 117th pope
  Pope
  
  The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City. The current pope is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected April 19, 2005 in Papal conclave, 2005....
  .

Medicine

• The Persian scientist Rhazes distinguishes smallpox
  Smallpox
  
  Smallpox is an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor. The disease is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera, which is a derivative of the Latin varius, meaning spotted, or varus, meaning "pimple"....
   from measles
  Measles
  
  Measles is a infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Morbilliviruses, like other paramyxoviruses, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses....
   in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintains "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".

Births

• Abu Jafar Khazeni
  Abu Jafar Khazeni
  
  Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn al-Hasan Al-Khazini , was a Persian astronomer and mathematician from Khorasan. He worked on both astronomy and number theory....
  , Persian astronomer and mathematician

Deaths

• August 13 — Zwentibold
  Zwentibold
  
  Zwentibold was the illegimate son of the Holy Roman Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia. In 895 his father granted him the Kingdom of Lotharingia, which he ruled until his death....
  , last King of Lotharingia (b. 870
  870
  
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• Domnall II
  Donald II of Scotland
  
  Domnall mac Causant?n , , anglicised as Donald II was King of the Picts or King of Scotland in the late 9th century. He was the son of Constantine I of Scotland ....
  , King of the Picts
  Picts
  
  The Picts were a confederation of tribes in what was later to become eastern and northern Scotland from Roman Empire times until the 10th century....
  
• Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims (assassinated by Count Baldwin II of Flanders
  Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
  
  Baldwin II , nicknamed Calvus was the second count of Flanders. He was also hereditary abbot of St. Bertin from 892 till his death. He was the son of Baldwin I of Flanders and Judith of Flanders, a daughter of Charles the Bald....
  )