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The 10th century was the period from 901 (represented by the Roman numerals CMI) through 1000 (M) 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 .
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At first, biographical writings were regarded merely as a subsection of history with a focus on a particular individual of historical importance. The independent genre of biography as distinct from general history writing, began to emerge in the 18th century and reached its contemporary form at the turn of the 20th century.
Several countries offer an annual prize for writing a biography such as the: 1. Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize– Canada 2. National Biography Award– Australia 3. Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography– United States 4. Whitbread Prize for Best Biography– United Kingdom 5. J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography– United Kingdom 6. Prix Goncourt...
Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Biography" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 952–954.Sidney Lee (1911), Principles of Biography, London: Cambridge University Press, Wikidata Q107333538Solomon, Maynard (2001). "Biography". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41156. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library me..."Biography", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Richard Holmes, Nigel Hamilton and Amanda Foreman (June 22, 2000).
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10th century in England. Events from the 10th century in the Kingdom of England . 902. Irish Norsemen, expelled from Dublin, establish colonies on The Wirral. [1] 909. King Edward the Elder and his sister, Princess Æthelflæd of Mercia, raid Danish East Anglia and bring back the relics of St. Oswald in triumph.
This category has the following 25 subcategories, out of 25 total. 10th-century calligraphers (2 C, 1 P) 10th-century non-fiction writers (2 C) 10th-century novelists (1 P) 10th-century poets (15 C, 7 P) 10th-century translators (1 C, 3 P)
10th century [73] Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī. Scholar and polymath of the late Samanids and early Ghaznavids. 973 – after 1050 [74] Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī. Mathematician and astronomer; author of Kitāb fī mā yaḥtaj ilayh al-kuttāb wa'l-ʿummāl min ʾilm al-ḥisāb, an arithmetic textbook; of Persian descent.
The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period ), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century. [note 1] They marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history, following the decline of the Western Roman Empire, and preceding the High Middle ...
