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Events 810s – Charlemagne dies

Charlemagne dies in the city of Aachen.  Events King Godfred of the Danes leads 200 Viking ships to plunder the Frisian coast, and forces the merchants to pay 100 pounds of silver. He claims Northern Frisia as Danish territory. Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen, after an almost 14-year reign (since 800) as the first Roman Emperor of Frankish origin (the precursor of the Holy Roman Emperor). He is embalmed and buried in Aachen Cathedral. Charlemagne is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious, as king of the Frankish Empire. 815: A 30-year peace agreement is signed between Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire. The Chinese government takes over the issuing of paper bank drafts, the ancestor of paper money. Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson sets out from the Faroe Islands and discovers Iceland  Emperor Saga of Japan is the first sovereign to drink tea (according to legend), imported […]

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