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==== Religion ====
* [[Saints Cyril and Methodius|Constantine the Philosopher]] (alias Saint Cyril) invents the 42-letter [[Slavic languages|Slavonic alphabet]] ([[Cyrillic script]]) as a tool for converting the [[Greater Moravia|Moravians]] to Christianity (approximate date).
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* During the [[Council of Shirakavan]] representatives of the [[Armenian Apostolic Church|Armenian]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Byzantine]] and [[Syriac Orthodox Church|West-Syrian]] Churches convenes to discuss church union. Though this is not achieved, an agreement is formulated which allows for the peaceful co-existence of Orthodox and non-Chalcedonians in the Byzantine-Armenian borderlands.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dorfmann-Lazarev |first1=Igor |title=‘Chapter III. The Armenian-Syrian-Byzantine Council of Širakawan, 862’ |journal=Journal of Eastern Christian Studies |date=2016 |volume=68 |issue=3-4 |pages=293–313 |url=https://www.academia.edu/31918231/_Chapter_III_The_Armenian_Syrian_Byzantine_Council_of_%C5%A0irakawan_862_in_Dorfmann_Lazarev_Christ_in_Armenian_Tradition_Doctrine_Apocrypha_Art_Sixth_Tenth_Centuries_Leuven_Peeters_2016_pp_293_313_plates_pp_388_and_402 |access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref>