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Heads of State · obituary

Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅( at the beginning of the year fire - buffalo丁丑)

Era of Diocletian: 694/695 ( year November )

Syria: 1289/90 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Raid Lothar, King of the West Frankish kingdom, to Aachen. Emperor Otto II and his wife Theophano evade capture just barely.
• July: Imperial Assembly of Otto II in Dortmund with the decision to French campaign

Born

• Abu Sa'id Abu'l Khair -i, Persian Sufi († 1049 or 1061 )
• Ibn ' Abd al - Barr, Islamic legal scholar from Spain ( † 1071 )
• Poppo of Stavelot, Abbot of Stavelot and Malmedy, St. Maximin in Trier, Wissembourg, Echternach and Sankt Gallen ( † 1048)

• 978: Berno, Abbot of Reichenau († 1048)
• 978: Zoe, Byzantine empress († 1050)

Died

• May 10-July 14: Thietmar I, Margrave of the Nordmark, of Meissen and Merseburg (c. 920)

• December 24: Hanno, Bishop of Worms

• Gerold of Großwalsertal, hermit and Catholic saint (c. 900)
• Li Houzhu, Chinese poet and the last king of the south Tang Empire (* 937)