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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Dog戊戌( at the beginning of the year Fire Rooster丁酉)

Syria: 1369/70 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • April 23: Malcolm III. Lulach kills and probably on April 25, King of Scotland.
  • Judith, the four year-old daughter of Emperor Henry III. , Is the five-year Hungarian prince Salomon anvermählt.
  • Petar Krešimir IV, after the death of his father Stjepan I. King of Croatia.
  • First mention of Bad Mergentheim.

Asia

  • Al- Basasiri, a general of the Abbasids moved its troops again in Iraq.

Religion

Pope Stephen IX. died on March 29 in Florence during the planning of a campaign against the Normans in southern Italy. He is buried in the Church of Santa Reparata. Although he has appointed before his death, it wants to listen to a recent conclave until Hildebrand has returned from Soana of his trip to Germany to Rome, a group chooses reform hostile Cardinals on April 5, Johann Mincius, the Bishop of Velletri, as Benedict X. Pope. The cardinals to St. Peter Damian, who protest against this election must flee from Rome. After returning Hildebrand and on his own initiative choose this after the approval of the German court has arrived, probably on December 6, Gerhard of Burgundy in Siena as Nicholas II, the new pope, whereupon does this on the way to Rome immediately.

Born

  • Baldwin of Boulogne, Count of Verdun, a leader of the First Crusade, Count of Edessa, later King of Jerusalem ( † 1118)
  • Al -Ghazali, Islamic philosopher and writer († 1111)
  • Olaf I, King of Denmark ( † 1095 )
  • John of Gaeta, later Pope Gelasius II († 1119 )

Died

  • 05 March: Theophanu, Abbess of Essen and Gerresheim (c. 997)
  • MARCH 17: Lulach, King of Scotland (* 1029/32 )
  • MARCH 29: Frederick of Lorraine, as Stephen IX. Pope (c. 1020)
  • Ælfwald II, Bishop of Sherborne
  • Abu al -Hasan al - Mawardi, Islamic legal scholar (* 972)
  • Solomon ibn Gabirol, Spanish - Jewish poet and philosopher (* 1021)
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