Prambanan
Java's great Hindu temple city, a neighbour of Borobudur
Around 850 the rulers of Mataram raised a temple complex on Java dedicated to the Trimurti: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. The central Shiva temple rises 47 metres, and the reliefs of its galleries retell the Ramayana. Prambanan was badly damaged in the 2006 earthquake and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 843 Treaty of Verdun — 7 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 862 Calling of the Varangians — 12 years later
Africa
- 859 Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Al-Khwarizmi (aged 70)
- Charles the Bald (aged 27)
- Rurik (aged 20)
- Oleg the Wise (aged 5)
- Alfred the Great (aged 1)