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Events

By Place

Europe

Births

Deaths

994 in popular culture

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty

★ Otto III reaches his majority and begins to rule Germany in his own right.

★ Aethelred II pays £22,000 of Danegeld to Olaf Trygvasson

Births

★ November 7 — Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)

★ Date unknown — Simeon, first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey

Deaths

★ Margrave Leopold I of Austria

★ Sigeric the Serious

994 in popular culture

★ Gargoyles was set in this year for the first episode, then mostly went into 1994.