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Year of the Metal horse庚午(at the beginning of Earth Snake己巳)

Era of Diocletian: 686/687 ( year November )

Syria: 1281/82 ( the year in October )

  • 2.1 Exact date of birth unknown
  • 2.2 Born around 970
  • Secured 3.1 Date of Death
  • 3.2 More death unknown
  • 3.3 Died at 970

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • February 22: Sancho II, after the death of his father I. García King of Navarre and Count of Aragón.
  • The Byzantine Empire under commander Bardas Sclerosis defeated a coalition of Kievan Rus, Bulgars, Magyars and Pechenegs under the leadership of the Kiev Grand Prince Sviatoslav I in the Battle of Arkadiopolis.
  • First mention of Coaña, Liggersdorf, Nohn and Graz.

Religion and science

  • The Monastery of St. Georgen is founded.
  • The Archbishop Gero of Cologne and his brother, Margrave Thietmar, founded the monastery Thank Champ de Mars.
  • 970: Foundation of Al -Azhar University ( Mosque) in Cairo

Born

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Gaudentius, first Archbishop of Gniezno († 1006-1022 )
  • Sitt al -Mulk: Fatimid Regent, sister of Caliph al -Hakim († 1023)

Born around 970

  • Gebhard I, Lord of cross- ford ( † around 1017 )
  • Gero, Margrave of Lausitz († 1015)
  • Gotzelo I, Duke of Lower Lorraine († 1044 )
  • Guido Pomposa, saint and abbot of the Benedictine monastery Pomposa († 1046 )
  • Heimerad, German priest and hermit († 1019)
  • Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne, Chancellor of Germany and Italy ( † 1021)
  • Leif Eriksson, Norwegian explorer († 1020 )
  • Prokop, Czech saint and priest († 1053 )
  • Rudolf III. , Rudolf III. of Burgundy ( † 1032)
  • Sergius IV, Pope († 1012)
  • Werigand, Count of Friuli and Istria ( † around 1051 )
  • Wilfried II, Count of Cerdanya († 1050)

Died

Backed death

More death unknown

  • Fernán González, the first independent count of Castile (* 932)
  • Fujiwara no Saneyori, Regent for the Japanese Emperor Reizei and En'yū (* 900)
  • García I, King of Navarre (c. 919)
  • Harold II, King of Norway

Died at 970

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