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Year of the Earth Rat戊子( at the beginning of the year fire - pig丁亥)

Era of Diocletian: 704/705 ( year November )

Syria: 1299/1300 (October)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Europe

• The county Berga is founded.
• The only 10 -year-old Baldwin IV is new after the death of his father Arnulf II Count of Flanders.
• Aldebert I will Count of La Marche.
• Wilfried II was Count of Cerdanya.
• Almansor plunders the city of León and lets burn down the city. Then he plunders Zamora, and Sahagún, leaving the monasteries of Eslonza Sahagún and destroy.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• Neckarbischofsheim and Neckargemuend are first mentioned.

Eastern Europe

• The Varangian Guard formed.

Science and Technology

• Establishment of the Al -Azhar University.

Religion

• Arnulf of Reims Archbishop of Reims.
• Grand Duke Vladimir I, ruler of Kievan Rus, receives the Orthodox baptism. By aimed mainly at Constantine Opel trade was to come despite initial conquest attempts by the Rus to close contacts with Byzantium, which led to the Christian missionary and finally to the passage of the Rus to the Orthodox faith. In Kiev pagan temples are destroyed and Slavic idols thrown into the Dnieper (see also Slavic mythology).

Born

• Tilopa, Indian founder of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism († 1069)

Died

• APRIL 28: Adaldag, Archbishop of Hamburg (c. 900)

• John I. Crescentius, Count of Terracina
• Guérech, Duke of Brittany