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Contents

Events

By Place

Asia

Births

Deaths

Literature

Events

By Place

Asia

★ Kshemgupta, King of Kashmir dies and is succeeded by his young son Abhimanyu. Didda, widow of the former and mother of the latter, becomes de facto ruler.

★ Later Zhou Dynasty strikes at Liao Dynasty positions in the Sixteen Prefectures, but is defeated.

Births

★ Basil II, Byzantine Emperor

★ Samuil of Bulgaria

★ Vladimir I, Prince of Kievan Rus

Deaths

★ King Gorm the Old of Denmark

★ Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di, Arab geographer, historian, and physicist

★ Tuathal mac Augaire, King of Leinster, Ireland

Literature

★ First literary reference to legendary Sherwood Forest, although no mention yet of Robin Hood, its most famous bandit denizen.