9th century

Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century

Decades: 800s, 810s, 820s, 830s, 840s, 850s, 860s, 870s, 880s, 890s

• Beowulf might have been written down in this century, though it could also have been in the 8th century
• Viking attacks on Europe begin
• Oseberg [ship burial]?

Significant persons

• Charlemagne
• Louis the Pious

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• first image of a rotary grindstone in a European source - illustration shows crank, first known use of a crank in the West (Utrecht Psalter, A.D. 843)