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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅(at the beginning of Earth Buffalo己丑)

Era of Diocletian: 706/707 ( year November )

Syria: 1301/ 02 (October)

Events

• End of the Italian expedition Theophanus (begun in 988 )
• A war between the Kievan Rus under Vladimir I. and the Pechenegs begins ( 990-1015 ).

Born

• Aribo of Mainz, Archbishop of Mainz ( † 1031 )
• Mieszko II Lambert, King, later Duke of Poland ( † 1034)
• Dietrich I, Margrave of Lausitz († 1034)
• Sancho III. , King of Aragon and Navarre († 1035 )
• Conrad II, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1027 - 1039 († 1039 )
• Alruna of Cham, German Blessed († 1045)
• Bernhard II, Duke of Saxony ( † 1059 )
• Tughrul Beg, Sultan of the Seljuks († 1063 )

• To 990: Sámuel Aba, King of Hungary († 1044 )

Died

• April 23: Ekkehard II of Sankt Gallen, German poet sequences
• JULY 31: Fujiwara no Kaneie, Japanese Regent (* 929 )

• Kiyohara no Motosuke, noble Japanese waka poet and scholar (* 908)

• Oliba cabretas, Count of Cerdanya, Besalu and Conflent