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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Badìa Fiorentina, an abbey in Florence, Italy, is founded by Willa, Margravine of Tuscany.

★ Ethelred II becomes king of England at age 10, following the assassination of his half-brother King Edward the Martyr.

★ Revolt of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria against Otto II ends.

Asia

★ Wu-Yue State forced to surrender to the Chinese Song Dynasty

★ One of the Four Great Books of Song, the ''Tàipíng guǎngjì'' is a Chinese encyclopedia documenting various stories of Chinese myths and subjects of theology. Divided into 500 volumes, it consisted of over 3 million written Chinese characters.

Births

★ Princess Zoe of Byzantium, later Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire

★ Yaroslav I the Wise, prince of Novgorod and Kiev

Deaths

★ March 18 — King Edward the Martyr of England, murdered by supporters of his half-brother

★ Abraham of Alexandria, Coptic pope

★ Li Houzhu, last Chinese emperor of the Southern Tang (born 936)