The 8th Century
Kalasan Temple in Java, constructed in 778
This page comprises the year 701 thru 800. It will later on be divided into decades, but not into individual years. Until then this is a century page.
It was a century when Classical Maya civilization begins to decline, when the poem Beowulf was probably composed, and an account of Buddha’s life was translated into Greek. More info to be read under individual decades. Continue reading