History
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General
Population: 226 Million*
- Deaths: Cordoba caliph Mahomet I, Byzantine Emperor Basil I
Asia
- India: Chola dynasty rules much of S India for almost 400 years
Europe
- England: King Alfred gives London and English Mercia to son-in-law Ethelred
Alfred captures London from the Danes and makes it a Burrough (fort)
- France: Vikings raid Paris
End of Northern Invasions of France with 4000 dead
- Spanish States: Death of Caliph of Cordoba Mahomet I
Middle East
- Byzantine Empire: Death of Basil I "the Macedonian" the Byzantine Emperor – succeeded by Leo VI the Wise