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Year of the Water Hare癸卯( at the beginning of the year Water Tiger壬寅)

Syria: 1314/15 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

• Jaromír becomes Prince of Bohemia for the first time.
• Oliva de Besalu lays down as the dignity of Count of Berga and goes to the monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. His successor will Wilfried II, Count of Cerdanya.
• The Moors devastate León.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• Food for the first time mentioned by name as a city.
• First mention of Kirchheim am Neckar and Kronach ( as " Urbs Crana ").
• First mention of the Cologne district of Cologne-Kalk.

Religion

• On 23 February, the Burgundian- Italian abbot, the monastery reformer and architect William of Dijon founded the abbey Fruttuaria in San Benigno Canavese about 20 km north of Turin. Founder of this monastery are Arduin, Margrave of Ivrea and King of Italy, and his wife, Berta, and Otto William, Count of Burgundy, which are among his relatives.

Born

• Nasser Khosrow, Persian theologian and philosopher († 1088)
• Humbert I, Count of Savoy († 1048)
• Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona ( † 1039 )

Died

• JANUARY 26: Rozala - Susanna of Italy, Countess of Flanders and later wife of the French King Robert II
• MAY 12: Sylvester II, Pope (c. 950 )
• November 6:. Johannes XVII, Pope in 1003

• Hermann II, since 997 Duke of Swabia, the son and successor of Hermann I.
• Gregory of Narek, Armenian monk and writer (* 951)
• Vladivoj, Duke of Bohemia since 1002 ( * 981 )
• William II, Count of Weimar (c. 930)