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Year of the Fire Dragon丙辰( at the beginning of the year wood rabbit乙卯)

Syria: 1327/28 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

The North Sea empire

  • April 23: The English king Æthelred out of the house of Wessex dies during the siege of London by Knut the Great. His claim to the throne takes his eldest son Edmund II Ironside. Between the two kings Edmund Knut and it comes in the wake several skirmishes.
  • October 18 In the decisive battle at Ashingdon, in the course drop some English Prince of Edmund, Edmunds is beaten army devastating. However, Knut is looking for a compromise with his opponents, so that there is a division of England. Edmund becomes King of Wessex, Knut rules over the rest part of the agreement is also that, should one of the two die, the other can take over control of the entire empire.
  • November 30: Just one month later dies Edmund. Wessex submits to Knut, who thus becomes King of all England and founded the North Sea Empire.

Other events around the world

  • Through a joint attack by the Byzantines and Rus it comes to the downfall of the Jewish Chasarenreiches.
  • Sviatopolk I. is Grand Duke of Kievan Rus.

Ersturkundliche mentions

Religion

  • Poppo von Babenberg, after the death of Megingod Archbishop of Trier.

Born

  • JULY 26: Casimir I, Duke of Poland from 1034 to 1058 († 1058 )
  • Eduard Aetheling, son of King Edmund Ironside
  • Minamoto no Tsunenobu, Japanese statesman, poet and musician († 1097 )
  • Naropa Buddhist master and one of the 84 Mahasiddhas

Died

  • April 23: Æthelred, King of Wessex (c. 968? )
  • 06 October: . Wichmann III, Saxon Earl of the family of the Bill Unger
  • November 30: Edmund II, King of England (c. 989)
  • Sulaiman al - Mustain, Caliph of Córdoba
  • Murasaki Shikibu, maid of honor and writer in Japan
  • Badis ibn Ziri, third ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya
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