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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Middle East

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ The Bishopric of Merseburg is formed in Saxony, with Boso of Merseburg as its first bishop

★ Conchobar mac Tadg (Connor MacTeague) becomes king of Connacht

★ Pandulf Ironhead becomes duke of Spoleto

★ Otto II is crowned co-emperor by Pope John XIII

★ Olaf Tryggvason flees Norwey with his mother only to be attacked by Estonian vikings

★ Dado becomes count of Pombia

Asia

★ Emperor Reizei ascends to the throne of Japan

★ The Khazar capital of Atil falls to the Kievan Rus around this year

★ The Cambodian temple of Banteay Srei is consecrated

★ Li Yixing becomes jiedushi of Dingnan

★ The settlement that would become Amber, India is established

Middle East

★ 'Izz al-Daula becomes the Buyid emir of Iraq

★ Bisutun ascends to the Ziyarid throne

Births

★ Sigrid Storrada (the Haughty)

★ Bolesław I, duke of Poland

★ Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine

★ Louis V, king of France

★ Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadhāni, Arabian author

★ Walter von Speyer, German poet and bishop

★ Abusaeid Abolkheir, Persian Sufi

★ Khottiga Amoghavarsha, Rashtrakuta warrior

★ Vahram Pahlavouni, prince of Bjni and Nik

★ Bertha, princess of Burgundy

Deaths

★ Abu al-Faraj Ali, scholar

★ Abu 'Ali Muhammad, Ilyasid ruler

★ Aleramo di Savona, marquess of Montferrat

★ Bolesław I, prince of Bohemia

★ Hugh II, lord of Lusignan

★ Krishna III, Rashtrakuta ruler

★ Mu'izz al-Daula, first Buyid emir.

★ Murakami, emperor of Japan

★ Vushmgir, ruler of the Ziyarids.

★ Wichmann the Younger, Saxon count

★ Matilda of Ringelheim, Holy Roman Empress

★ Leon III, king of Abkhazia

★ Hubert, margrave of Tuscany

★ Dub mac Maíl Coluim, king of Alba