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Year of the Metal Rat庚子(at the beginning of Earth Pig己亥)
Era of Diocletian: 656/657 ( year November )
Syria: 1251/52 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- King Otto I. distributes King Louis IV of Lorraine and enfeoffed his brother Henry with the Duchy. This may be there but not enforce.
- Kempten im Allgäu monastery village is sacked by the Hungarians.
- Saracen raid on Saint- Maurice and Fréjus.
- Duke Hugh the Great pays homage to King Otto I in the royal palace Attigny.
- Count Heribert II of Vermandois sells Artold Archbishop of Reims, there is his son Hugo again.
- Odo of Canterbury mediated a peace treaty between the English King Edmund I. and Olaf Guthfrithsson.
Ersturkundliche mentions
- First mention of Mörsch.
Born
- Abu l - Wafa al Busdjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer († 998 )
- Abū l - Qasem -e Ferdowsi, Persian poet and epic poet, lead author of the Shahnameh ( "King letter " ) ( † 1020)
- Baldwin III. , Count of Flanders ( † 962)
- Gregory of Calabria, first abbot of the abbey Burtscheid
- Henry III. , Duke of Bavaria († 989)
Died
- Ar - Radi bi- ' llāh, twentieth Abbasid Caliph (* 907)
- ( to ) Eberhard, Duke of Bavaria (* 912)