Laguna Copperplate Inscription
The Philippines' oldest document is a debt waiver
The text is dated Saka year 822 — AD 900. It releases the children of one Namwaran from a debt of 1 kati and 8 suwarnas of gold (about 865 grams). A labourer found the plate by chance in 1987; it is the earliest dated document known from the Philippines.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 9th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 882 Oleg takes Kiev — 18 years earlier
- c. 895 Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin — 5 years earlier
Africa
- c. 900 The bronzes of Igbo-Ukwu — same year
- 909 Proclamation of the Fatimid Caliphate — 9 years later
Americas
- c. 900 Rise of Chichen Itza — same year
Alive at the time
- Oleg the Wise (aged 55)
- Al-Farabi (aged 28)
- Igor of Kiev (aged 22)
- Æthelstan (aged 6)
- Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (aged 27)
- Edward the Elder (aged 26)