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Europe

The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.
Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. The boundaries between Wessex and the Danelaw are shifted.
Alfred the Great builds a small harbour called Queenhythe slightly upstream from London Bridge.
Alfred the Great mints the first halfpenny. Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half.
Earl Aethelred is given control of London by Alfred the Great. Alfred's sister Ethelfleda marries Aethelred.
Khan Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.
Charles II of France purchases peace with Vikings and Rollo of Normandy, then lifts his siege of Paris.
Odo, Count of Paris becomes Count of Anjou on the death of Hugh the Abbot.

Byzantine Empire

Leo VI succeeds his stepfather Basil I as Byzantine emperor and replaces patriarch Photius with his brother Stephen I.

Births

Adalbert II

Ibn Muqlah

Deaths

August 29 — Basil I, Byzantine Emperor

Adalbert, Duke of Tuscany

Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Persian astronomer

Heongang, king of Silla (in modern Korea)

Wulgrin I, Count of Angoulême

Muhammad I of Córdoba, leader of the Umayyad dynasty

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