10th century


[Image:East-Hem 900ad.jpg|thumb|300px|Eastern Hemisphere at the beginning of the 10th century]
The 10th century was the period from 901 through 1000 in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the last century of the 1st millennium.
In China, the Song dynasty was established, with most of China reuniting after the fall of the Tang dynasty and the following Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Muslim World experienced a cultural zenith, especially in al-Andalus under the Caliphate of Córdoba and in the Samanid Empire under Ismail Samani. The Abbasid Caliphate continued to exist but with reduced central authority. Additionally, there was a cultural flourishing for the Byzantine Empire, which also reconquered some lost territories, and the First Bulgarian Empire, as well as the Holy Roman Empire during the Ottonian Renaissance. The historian Lynn White mentions of the period that "to the modern eye, it is very nearly the darkest of the Dark Ages... if it was dark, it was the darkness of the womb". Caesar Baronius described it as the Iron Century, because it was 'iron in its harshness and in its sterility of goodness', while Lorenzo Valla gave it the similar name "Age of Lead and Iron".

Events

Africa

Americas

Asia

Image:Yogini Goddess from Tamil Nadu.jpg|thumb|right|200px|This statue of a yogini goddess was created in Kaveripakkam in Tamil Nadu, India, during the 10th century.

Europe

Anchialos [917">Battle of Acheloos">Anchialos [917.jpg|thumb|260x260px|The Bulgarian victory at Anchialos.]

Oceania

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Image:FireLanceAndGrenade10thCenturyDunhuang.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Earliest known representation of a gun and a grenade, from the cave murals of Dunhuang, China, 10th century.