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Chinese alchemists discover how to make gunpowder.
At his court in Aachen, Charlemagne establishes a palace school headed by the English monk Alcuin of York, beginning a revival of learning in western Europe that becomes known as the Carolingian Renaissance.
Charlemagne defeats the Avars.
The rulers of the Khmer (Cambodian) empire found the city of Angkor, which remains their capital until the fifteenth century.
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