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836–890India [administration]After the disasters of Ramabhadra's reign, his son, King Bhoja I, restores the Gurjara kingdom as the leading power of northern India.
c. 847Arab Caliphate [churches and temples]Building begins on the Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil at the second Abbasid capital of Samarra (in modern Iraq). The largest mosque in the world, its most distinctive feature is its huge spiral minaret built of brick.
10 August 847Arab Caliphate [political events]On the death of the Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq, his brother, al-Mutawakkil, becomes caliph (ruler of the Islamic world). A sternly orthodox Muslim, al-Mutawakkil immediately begins the persecution of the Shiite Muslim minority and introduces restrictions on the activities of Christians and Jews.


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