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Events

By Place

Europe

Byzantine Empire

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.

★ Alfred the Great captures London and renames it Lundenburgh. The boundaries between Wessex and the Danelaw are shifted.

★ Alfred the Great builds a small harbour called Queenhythe slightly upstream from London Bridge.

★ Alfred the Great mints the first halfpenny. Previous halfpennies had been pennies cut in half.

★ Earl Aethelred is given control of London by Alfred the Great. Alfred's sister Ethelfleda marries Aethelred.

★ Khan Boris I of Bulgaria establishes the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.

★ Charles II of France purchases peace with Vikings and Rollo of Normandy then lifts his siege of Paris.

★ Odo, Count of Paris becomes Count of Anjou on the death of Hugh the Abbot.

Byzantine Empire

★ Leo VI succeeds his stepfather Basil I as Byzantine emperor and replaces patriarch Photius with his brother Stephen I.

Births

★ Adalbert II

★ Ibn Muqlah

Deaths

★ August 29 — Basil I, Byzantine Emperor

★ Adalbert, Duke of Tuscany

★ Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Persian astronomer

★ Heongang, king of Silla (in modern Korea)

★ Wulgrin I, Count of Angoulême

★ Muhammad I of Córdoba, leader of the Umayyad dynasty