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Events

By Place

Asia

Europe

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Asia

★ King Taejo of Goryeo (Wanggeon) defeats Hubaekje.

★ Later Tang Dynasty falls to the Later Jin Dynasty founded by Shi Jingtang, posthumously known as Gaozu of Later Jin, in China

★ Sixteen Prefectures, which includes the area around modern-day Beijing is absorbed by the Khitan empire.

★ Prince Bei, elder brother of the Liao Dynasty emperor, is murdered by the Later Tang Dynasty.

★ Ibn Muqlah, the Islamic calligrapher, is disgraced and imprisoned in Baghdad

Europe

★ Otto I is the first German king to be crowned in Aachen.

By Topic

Religion

★ January 3 — Pope Leo VII succeeds Pope John XI as the 126th pope.

Births

★ Abu al-Qasim, Moorish scholar

★ Li Houzhu, last Chinese emperor of the Southern Tang (d. 978)

Deaths

★ Henry the Fowler, German king

★ Gyeonhwon, King of Hubaekje (cancer)