View source for 8th century

== Events ==
* Sometime this century, [[Beowulf]] is probably written down.

== Significant persons ==
* [[Charles Martel]]
* The [[Venerable Bede]], [[England|English]] [[scholar]]
* Pepin the short

== Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions ==
* heavy [[plow]] in use in the Rhine valley
* [[horsecollar]] in use in Northern [[Europe]] - perhaps introduced from [[Asia]]
* [[paper]]making introduced from [[China]] to [[Arab]]s
* ca. 770: [[iron]] [[horseshoe]]s come into common use 

''See also:''
* [[7th Century]]
* [[9th Century]]
* [[Period]]
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