The Diamond Sutra is printed
China prints the oldest surviving dated book
In China a woodblock-printed scroll of the Diamond Sutra was produced — the oldest surviving dated printed book. It was found in 1900 in a sealed cave of the Mogao Grottoes near Dunhuang.
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The oldest dated printed book, China's Diamond Sutra of 868, is almost 600 years older than the Gutenberg Bible.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 843 Treaty of Verdun — 25 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 862 Calling of the Varangians — 6 years earlier
- 882 Oleg takes Kiev — 14 years later
Africa
- 859 Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin — 9 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Charles the Bald (aged 45)
- Rurik (aged 38)
- Oleg the Wise (aged 23)
- Alfred the Great (aged 19)