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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester, rebuilds the western end of the Old Minster, Winchester, with twin towers and no apses.

★ German emperor Otto II grants Lower Lorraine, where modern-day Brussels is located, to Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, illegitimate son of King Louis IV of France.

★ King Kenneth II of Scotland kills Amlaíb, brother of King Culen, to establish himself as Culen's successor.

Asia

★ The original Imam Ali Mosque is built at Najaf, Iraq by Iranian ruler the Daylamite Fannakhosraw Azod ad Dowleh.

Births

★ Kokei

★ Poppo of Deinze

Deaths

★ Hunain ibn Ishaq, Egyptian physician

★ Dubrawka, daughter of Duke Boleslav I of Bohemia

★ Fujiwara no Kanemichi, a kugyo of the Heian period of Japan who served as Kampaku