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Contents

Events

By Place

Asia

Europe

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Asia

★ End of the reign of Emperor En'yū, emperor of Japan

★ Emperor Kazan ascends to the throne of Japan

★ The Song Dynasty Chinese engineer Qiao Wei innovates the first known use of the canal pound lock for adjusting different water-levels in segments of the canal.

Europe

★ Henry II, Duke of Bavaria abducts the child king Otto III

★ Settlement of Greenland begun by the Norse

By Topic

Religion

★ Antipope Boniface VII murders Pope John XIV

Births

★ Ch'oe Ch'ung, Korean scholar

★ Canute the Great, Emperor of the North

Deaths

★ Pope John XIV

★ May 5 Gerberga of Saxony