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800South America [astronomy]An astronomical altar known as ‘the hitching post of the Sun’ is built in the Peruvian city of Machu Picchu, and is used to measure solar and lunar movements with great accuracy.
c. 800Japan [social customs]Tea is introduced to Japan from China as a medicine.
800Arabia [health and medicine]Muslim scholar Al-Batriq produces Arabic translations of major works by the Greek physicians Galen and Hippocrates; they will have a lasting effect on Arab medicine.
25 December 800Carolingian Empire, Italy [political events]Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards, is crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in Rome on Christmas Day. The coronation ceremony consciously recalls those of the Western Roman Empire, which fell in 476, but the Byzantines refuse to recognize his title as a successor.


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The Rodman Columbiad threw a shot weighing half a ton a distance of six miles, with a velocity of 800 yards per second-- a result which Armstrong and Palisser have never obtained in England.
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