History
868
General
Population: 226 Million*
- Entertainment: Diamond Sutra becomes oldest printed book – Chinese woodblock
Otfrid von Wessenburg creates German epic poem "Diatessaron"
Africa
- Egypt: Ahmad ibn-Tulun, a Turkish Egyptian noble, breaks away from Abbasid caliphate and sets up Tulunid dynasty in Egypt
Asia
- China: Diamond Sutra becomes oldest printed book – Chinese woodblock
Europe
- France: Paris crippled by famine