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Year of the Earth Dog戊戌( at the beginning of the year Fire Rooster丁酉)

Era of Diocletian 714/715

Syria: 1309/10 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe and northern Africa

• FEBRUARY 20: Otto III. reached on his new campaign in Italy Rome. He succeeds the party of the antipope John XVI. to defeat. This is blinded and sent to a monastery. Pope Gregory V, a relative of the emperor's reign gets back over the city.
• Heribert of Cologne is of Otto III. appointed Chancellor of Germany.
• On Ascension a Venetian fleet wins under Doge Pietro II Orseolo a victory over the Dalmatians, to which the city-state since a defeat in the year had to pay 887 Tribute. Venice commemorates this day since then with its own holiday, the Festa della Sensa.
• Abd al -Malik is used by his father, Almansor, the actual ruler of the Caliphate of Córdoba in Fes as governor in northern Morocco.

Asia

• Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni occurs in north-west India to his government office. Under him the empire of the Ghaznavids achieved with capital Ghazni its power peak.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• Bassano del Grappa in Veneto, Bevaix, bread Plamboz, Hohenpolding in Bavaria and Noiraigue in the Canton of Neuchâtel and Stetten in the canton of Aargau are first mentioned.

Culture

• Rudolf of Burgundy gives the Abbey Bevaix vines from his homeland, thereby laying the foundation for the Neuchâtel wine culture.
• The first written mention of viticulture in the Saale / Unstrut in Thuringia on the basis of a deed of gift.

Religion

• November 2 Abbot Odilo of Cluny determines this day as a day of remembrance for the dead. The day it develops in a few years to the Remembrance Day All Souls Church.

• Emperor Otto III. appoints Gerbert of Aurillac, later Pope Sylvester II, Archbishop of Ravenna and Leo of Vercelli bishop of the Piedmontese town of Vercelli.

Died

• 3 / 4 April: Gottfried the prisoner, Count of Verdun
• 029 April: Crescentius I. Nomentanus, Roman patrician

• August 24: Sisinnios II, Patriarch of Constantinople Opel

• October 28: Siegfried I, Count of Luxembourg (* 919)

• Abu l - Wafa al Busdjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (* 940)
• Benedict II, Count of Sabina