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Events
By Place
Europe
★
Prague Castle founded
★ The
Great Summer Army invades
England and conquers
East Anglia.
★ Among the buildings destroyed by the Danish invaders are the abbey of
Ely and the monastery of
Peterborough.
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December 31 — The Danes are defeated by a Saxon army at
Englefield,
Berkshire. It is the first of a series of battles between Wessex and the Danes.
★
Malta is conquered by Arabs from
Sicily.
★
Treaty of Mersen:
Charles the Bald and
Louis the German divide
Lotharingia among themselves.
★
Borivoj becomes duke of
Bohemia.
★
Charles the Bald marries Richilde.
By Topic
Religion
★
Michael II succeeds
Michael I as
patriarch of Alexandria
★ Establishment of autonomous
Bulgarian Archbishopric.
★
February 28 — End of the
Fourth Council of Constantinople.
Births
★
Al-Farabi, Persian philosopher and scientist
★
Zwentibold, King of Lotharingia
Deaths
★
November 20 — King
Edmund of East Anglia
★
al-Bukhari, Persian Hadith compiler