802

In 802: 3 events across 3 regions, including Jayavarman II is proclaimed universal monarch on Mount Mahendra, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro’s campaign and the surrender of Aterui, Harun al-Rashid’s elephant Abul-Abbas reaches Aachen.

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• The Late Woodland period in eastern North Americac. 500 – c. 1000 · North America
• Volyntsevo culture: the Slavs of the Dnieper Left Bank in the Khazar agebetween 700 and 750 – between 813 and 833 · Eastern Europe
• Cacaxtla and Xochicalco: the Epiclassic cities of central Mexicoc. 650 – c. 900 · Latin America
• Byzantine Iconoclasmbetween 726 and 730 – 11 March 843 · Balkans and Anatolia
• Saxon Wars772–804 · Western and Central Europe
• Reign of Harun al-Rashidbetween 14 September and 17 September 786 – 24 March 809 · Middle East and Egypt
• Wari culture and the Middle Horizon state in the Central Andesc. 600 – c. 1000 · Latin America
• Tiwanaku culture at its height by Lake Titicacac. 600 – c. 1000 · Latin America
• Building of Borobudurc. 780 – c. 833 · Southeast Asia and Oceania
• Pueblo I: villages of surface rooms on the Colorado Plateauc. 750 – c. 900 · North America
• Saltovo-Mayaki culturec. 750 – between 900 and 950 · Eastern Europe
• The House of Wisdom and the translation movement in Baghdadc. 800 – c. 900 · Middle East and Egypt
• Plum Bayou Mounds: a planned ceremonial centre in the Arkansas valleyc. 650 – c. 1050 · North America
• The tripartite struggle for Kannaujbetween 783 and 790 – between 915 and 918 · South Asia
• Ifriqiya under the Aghlabids800 – March 909 · Africa
• Classic Maya collapse in the southern lowlandsc. 800 – c. 950 · Latin America
• Rise of Chichén Itzá in northern Yucatánc. 800 – between 900 and 1000 · Latin America
• Igbo-Ukwu: bronze casting in the West African forest800–899 – 1100–1199 · Africa