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Year of the Hare wood乙卯( at the beginning of the year Wood Tiger甲寅)

Era of Diocletian: 671/672 ( year November )

Syria: 1266/67 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Wichmann II and Ekbert from Ambergau enter into open rebellion against Otto and team up as they could be forced by Hermann Herzog about the same, with the Abodrites.
  • Second Saracen invasion of Raetia (first in 926 )
  • Henry I, Count of Lerigau, is appointed Count of Westphalia.
  • Ordoño III. León attacks Lisbon.

Religion

  • Sviatoslav, son of Igor and Olga was baptized, but remains only superficially Christianized.

Born

  • Otto II, Duke of Saxony and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire († 983 )
  • December: Mathilde, first abbess of Quedlinburg pin († 999)
  • Aelfric, Anglo-Saxon scholars († 1020)

Died

April 2014 List of centuries 8th century 12th century 910s 940s 950s 990s 945 965 Armenian calendar Vikram Samvat Buddhist calendar Sexagenary cycle Dai people Iranian calendars Coptic calendar Malayalam calendar August 10 Cavalry October 16 Obotrites Wichmann the Younger December 16 Pope John XII Sviatoslav I of Kiev Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg Conrad, Duke of Lorraine 922 November 1 November 8
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