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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Americas

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ March 2 — Louis V becomes King of the Franks

★ Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark

Asia

★ End of the reign of Emperor Kazan, emperor of Japan

★ Emperor Ichijō ascends to the throne of Japan

★ The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures but are defeated on all fronts.

★ One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopdia ''Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature'' is finished in this year, with a total of 1000 volumes representing the work of some 2,200 authors.

Americas

★ Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America

Births

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Deaths

★ March 2 — Lothair, King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor

★ May 25 — 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Muslim astronomer

★ November 1 — Harold I of Denmark

★ Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd