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Contents

Events

By Place

Asia

Europe

Africa

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Asia

★ Major volcano eruption in Mashu, Japan

Europe

★ Devastating decade long famine begins in France

★ Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from massive barbarian invasion

Africa

★ Construction completed on Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, world's oldest Islamic university

Births

★ Leif Ericson, Norse explorer

★ Seyyed Razi, important Muslim scholar and writer

★ Sitt al-Mulk

Deaths

★ Magyar leader, Taksány

★ Ferdinand II of Castile

★ Fujiwara no Saneyori

★ García III of Pamplona

★ Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz

★ Menahem ben Saruq

★ Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople

★ Taksony of Hungary