8th century

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Centuries:	7th century - 8th century - 9th century
Decades:	700s 710s 720s 730s 740s 750s 760s 770s 780s 790s

The 8th century is the period from 700 - 799 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

Contents 1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

Events

• Most of the Iberian peninsula is conquered by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost eight centuries of Muslim presence there.
• Sometime this century, Beowulf is probably composed.
• The Pictish peoples of Scotland design the first European triangular harp
• Borobodur, the famous Indonesian Buddhist structure, begins construction, probably as a non-Buddhist shrine.
• Buddhist Jataka stories are translated into Syriac and Arabic as Kalilag and Damnag.
• An account of Buddha's life is translated into Greek by Saint John of Damascus, and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.
• The Nara period begins in Japan.
• The Moravian principality and the Principality of Nitra arise in central Europe (see Great Moravia)
• Many Volga Bulgarians convert to Islam.
• The very first Viking raid is carried out on the abbey of Lindisfarne in northern England in 793.
• Kanem-Bornu arises north of Lake Chad.
• Height of the Classic period in pre-Columbian Maya civilization history.

Significant persons

• Charles Martel, Frankish leader until 741 (Battle of Tours, 732)
• Pippin the Younger, king of the Franks until 768
• Charlemagne, king of the Franks from 771 to 814
• Alcuin, English monk, scholar, and teacher; Charlemagne's advisor in educational affairs
• The Venerable Bede, English scholar
• Harun al-Rashid, fifth Abbasid Caliph
• Li Po, Chinese poet
• Du Fu, Chinese poet
• Dae Jo Yeong, founder of Balhae, a state in ancient Manchuria

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• heavy plow in use in the Rhine valley
• horsecollar in use in Northern Europe in 8th or 9th century - perhaps introduced from Asia
• papermaking introduced from China to Arabs
• beginning of the decline of the Classical Maya civilization
• ca. 770: iron horseshoes come into common use
• Pattadakal, Chalukya Architecture

Decades and years

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