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Events
By Place
Asia
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Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of
Hubaekje in southwestern
Korea.
★
Merchants from southwest
Asia and
India settle on the east-
African coast, trading
gold,
beads and
metal for
ivory and
slaves.
Europe
★
Harald Fairhair of the
Yngling or
Scilfing dynasty subdues the petty kings of
Norway and conquers the
Orkney and
Shetland islands.
By Topic
Religion
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February —
Pope Benedict IV succeeds
Pope John IX as the 117th
pope.
Medicine
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Persian scientist,
Rhazes, distinguished
smallpox from
measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintained "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".
Births
★
Abu Jafar Khazeni, Persian astronomer and mathematician
Deaths
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August 13 —
Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b.
870)
★
Domnall II, King of the
Picts
★
Fulk the Venerable,
Archbishop of Rheims, assassinated by Count
Baldwin II of Flanders
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