By Guangqiu Xu
A part of a sequence aiming to aid scholars and researchers comprehend key sessions in international historical past, this quantity is split into 9 chapters that target Imperial China.
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925 Bulgarian leader Simeon the Great becomes tsar of the Romans and Bulgarians. 926 Aethelstan annexes Northumbria. Manchuria and northern Korea are annexed by the Mongol Khitan empire. 927 The Reveller, a Slavic tribe living along the Havel River, are defeated by Henry the Fowler. 928 Marozia (Little Mary), an influential Italian noblewoman, succeeds in having Pope John X imprisoned. He dies in prison. Vikings reputedly massacre one thousand Irish taking refuge in Dunmore Cave. 929 Stephen VII becomes Pope and serves until his death in 931.
1152 Before he dies, Conrad III designates Frederick III of Swabia as his successor to the German kingship. Frederick is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1155 as Frederick I (Barbarossa). 1153 Eugenius III establishes the terms for Frederick I taking control of the Holy Roman Empire in the Treaty of Constance, largely trading support from the German king against internal and external threats for the crown.
811 Nicephorus I dies in battle while attacking the capital of Bulgar leader Krum. Allegedly, the khan drinks from a cup fashioned from the slain emperor's skull. Nicephorus Fs successor, Stauracius, is unable to serve because of a debilitating injury and is replaced on the throne by his son-in-law, Michael Rangabe, who becomes Michael I. 812 Michael I sends an embassy to Charlemagne and formally recognizes him as emperor of the West. In return, Charlemagne concedes Venice and Dalmatia to the Byzantine Empire.