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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Kenneth II of Scotland succeeds Culen as King, though he wasn't sole king until 977.

★ Saint Swithun's body is moved into an indoor shrine, he was previously buried outside. The ceremony is said to of been marred by forty days of torrential rain.

Asia

★ Southern Han forced to submit to the Song Dynasty in China

★ Basileus John I Tzimiskes defeats Sviatoslav I of Kiev in the Fifth Rus'-Byzantine War. ''See''Battle of Dorostolon.

Births

★ Kushyar ibn Labban

★ Mahmud of Ghazni

Deaths

★ Abu Jafar Khazeni

★ Culen of Scotland

★ Ziri ibn Manad