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900–1000Pacific [colonization]The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori people discover and begin the settlement of New Zealand.
7 December 909Fatimid Caliphate [political events]After overthrowing the Sunni Aghlabid dynasty of Kairouan (in modern Tunisia), Sa'id ibn-Husayn is proclaimed as Ubaydullah al-Mahdi (‘the divinely guided one’) in Tunis and sets up an Ismailite (Shiite) caliphate in opposition to the Sunni caliphate of Baghdad (in modern Iraq). Al-Mahdi founds the Fatimid dynasty (named after the Islamic prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatima, from whom Sa'id claims descent).


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