885

In 885: 3 events across 2 regions, including Mission of Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia, Mihira Bhoja and the Pratihara empire of Kannauj, Viking siege of Paris.

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• The Late Woodland period in eastern North Americac. 500 – c. 1000 · North America
• Cacaxtla and Xochicalco: the Epiclassic cities of central Mexicoc. 650 – c. 900 · Latin America
• 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
• 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
• The rise of the Samanids in Transoxiana819–900 · Central and Northern Asia
• Aghlabid conquest of SicilyJune 827 – 1 August 902 · Western and Central Europe
• 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
• Norse settlement of Icelandc. 870 – 930 · Western and Central Europe
• Igbo-Ukwu: bronze casting in the West African forest800–899 – 1100–1199 · Africa