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Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)

Era of Diocletian: 653/654 ( year November )

Syria: 1248/49 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • September 21: King Otto I. founded in Magdeburg, the Benedictine monastery of St. Mauritius ( Moritz monastery). He suggests an incidence of Hungary back in Franconia.
  • Thankmar, older half- brother of King Otto I., to reset feels and presents himself at the head of a revolt in Franconia and Lorraine.
  • Giselbert Duke of Lorraine rises against King Otto I and pulls the Counts of Verdun, Cambrai and Holland on his side.
  • Margrave Hermann Billung of Nordelbien pulls on behalf of King Otto I. against the insurgent Thankmar of Saxony.
  • Margrave Gero receives from King Otto I the Saxon Ostmark.
  • King Hugo I of Italy married in December in Colombier on Lake Geneva in third marriage Bertha of Burgundy, born of Swabia, widow of Rudolf II, and betrothed his son Lothar with her ​​six year old daughter Adelheid.
  • King Æthelstan of Wessex and his brother Edmund I. defeat with their troops a united army of Danes, Irish and Scots at Bruna Pittsburgh.

Asia

  • Duan Siping founds the Kingdom of Dali.

Born

  • Li Houzhu, Chinese poet and the last king of the south Tang Empire († 978)
  • As- Sulami, Persian and Islamic Sufi († 1021)

Died

  • MAY 31: Hildebert, Archbishop of Mainz
  • 09 June: Wolfram von Freising, Bishop of Freising
  • David II, King of Georgia ( * before 897 )
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