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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Oldest known mention of the city of Gundelfingen.

★ Olav Haraldsson, the future king of Norway lands on Saaremaa island in Estonia, wins a battle there and forces the inhabitants to pay tribute.

Asia

★ Mohammed II succeeds Hisham II as Caliph of Cordoba.

★ Unification of Georgia under king Bagrat III.

★ The Egyptian Fatimid Empire under Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah sends the sea captain Domiyat on a tributary mission to Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty in order to reestablish trade relations between Egypt and China.

By Topic

Religion

★ Olof, king of Sweden, is baptized by saint Sigfrid.

★ Bruno of Querfurt and others try to establish a mission among the Prussians.

Births

★ May 4 — King Henry I of France (d. 1060)

★ October 12 — Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)

★ Sugawara no Takasue no musume Japanese writer

Deaths

★ Emperor Kazan, emperor of Japan (b. 968)

★ Gunnlaugur Ormstunga, Icelandic Poet (b. ca.983)