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900–1000Pacific [colonization]The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori people discover and begin the settlement of New Zealand.
916Central Asia [administration]Apaochi, chief of the Qitan (or Khitan Mongol) nomads, proclaims himself emperor of the Qitan and establishes the state of Liao in imitation of Chinese methods of government. Liao survives until 1125. The Qitan are also known as Kitai from which the medieval European name for China, ‘Cathay’, is derived.


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The 916 area code, which extends from Sacramento north to the Oregon border, is due for an additional area code sometime after December 1997.
 
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