Volga Bulgaria adopts Islam
A caliph's embassy, and Ibn Fadlan's notes on the Rus'
In 922 an embassy from the caliph of Baghdad reached the ruler of Volga Bulgaria, and the country officially adopted Islam. The embassy's secretary, Ibn Fadlan, left notes describing Rus' merchants and a ship burial, one of the most vivid accounts of early Rus'.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 939 Eldgjá eruption — 17 years later
Africa
- c. 900 The bronzes of Igbo-Ukwu — 22 years earlier
Asia
- 946 Millennium Eruption of Mount Paektu — 24 years later
Americas
- c. 900 Rise of Chichen Itza — 22 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Igor of Kiev (aged 44)
- Æthelstan (aged 28)
- Otto the Great (aged 10)
- Olga of Kiev (aged 2)
- Edward the Elder (aged 48)