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id="toc-By_topic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1.2.1</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-961" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#961"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2</span> <span>961</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-961-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1.1</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1.2</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Armenia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Armenia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.1.3</span> <span>Armenia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Armenia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Art" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Art"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2.1</span> <span>Art</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Art-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2.2</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-962" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#962"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>962</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-962-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.1</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.2</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Scotland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scotland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.1.3</span> <span>Scotland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scotland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Religion_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3.2.1</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-963" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#963"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>963</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-963-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.1</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.2</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Asia_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Asia_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1.3</span> <span>Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Asia_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Religion_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.2.1</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-964" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#964"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>964</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-964-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.1</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.2</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.3</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Religion_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.3.1</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Science" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Science"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.3.2</span> <span>Science</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Science-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-965" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#965"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>965</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-965-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_5" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_5"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_5-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.1</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.2</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-China" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#China"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.1.3</span> <span>China</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-China-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Literature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Literature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.2.1</span> <span>Literature</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Literature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6.2.2</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-966" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#966"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>966</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-966-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_6" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_6"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_6-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.2</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.3</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Asia_3" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Asia_3"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.4</span> <span>Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Asia_3-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.5</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Religion_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.5.1</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-967" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#967"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>967</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-967-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_7" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_7"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_7-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Europe_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1.1</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arabian_Empire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arabian_Empire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1.2</span> <span>Arabian Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arabian_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Japan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Japan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.1.3</span> <span>Japan</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Japan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Religion_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8.2.1</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-968" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#968"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>968</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-968-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_8" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_8"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1.1</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_8-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1.2</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ireland" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ireland"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.1.3</span> <span>Ireland</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ireland-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Religion_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9.2.1</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-969" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#969"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10</span> <span>969</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-969-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-By_place_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_place_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1</span> <span>By place</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_place_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_9" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Byzantine_Empire_9"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.1</span> <span>Byzantine Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Byzantine_Empire_9-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Europe_10" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Europe_10"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.2</span> <span>Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Europe_10-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Africa_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Africa_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.3</span> <span>Africa</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Africa_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Asia_4" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Asia_4"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.1.4</span> <span>Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Asia_4-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-By_topic_10" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#By_topic_10"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.2</span> <span>By topic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-By_topic_10-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10.2.1</span> <span>Geography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion_10" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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title="Anyos 960 – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Anyos 960" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9cada_del_960" title="Década del 960 – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Década del 960" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-an" title="960-an – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="960-an" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AC%E0%A7%A6-%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%95" title="৯৬০-এর দশক – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="৯৬০-এর দশক" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/960_n%C3%AE-t%C4%81i" title="960 nî-tāi – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="960 nî-tāi" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D1%8F" title="960-я – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="960-я" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D1%8F" title="960-я – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="960-я" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-e" title="960-e – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="960-e" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloavezhio%C3%B9_960" title="Bloavezhioù 960 – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Bloavezhioù 960" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A8cada_del_960" title="Dècada del 960 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Dècada del 960" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D0%BC%C4%95%D1%88_%C3%A7%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BC" title="960-мĕш çулсем – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="960-мĕш çулсем" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/960au" title="960au – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="960au" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/960%27erne" title="960'erne – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="960'erne" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85_960" title="عوام 960 – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="عوام 960" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/960er" title="960er – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="960er" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/960._aastad" title="960. aastad – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="960. aastad" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_960" title="An 960 – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="An 960" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/960_%D1%86%D0%B5_%D0%B8%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C" title="960 це иеть – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="960 це иеть" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%B1os_960" title="Años 960 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Años 960" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-aj_jaroj" title="960-aj jaroj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="960-aj jaroj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/960ko_hamarkada" title="960ko hamarkada – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="960ko hamarkada" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%87_%DB%B9%DB%B6%DB%B0_(%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C)" title="دهه ۹۶۰ (میلادی) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دهه ۹۶۰ (میلادی)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%C3%A1rini" title="960-árini – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="960-árini" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%C3%A9es_960" title="Années 960 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Années 960" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/960id%C3%AD" title="960idí – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="960idí" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/960an" title="960an – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="960an" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9cada_de_960" title="Década de 960 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Década de 960" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/960%E5%B9%B4%E4%BB%A3" title="960年代 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="960年代" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/960%EB%85%84%EB%8C%80" title="960년대 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="960년대" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-an" title="960-an – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="960-an" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/961%E2%80%93970" title="961–970 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="961–970" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94-60_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%94_%D7%94-10" title="שנות ה-60 של המאה ה-10 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שנות ה-60 של המאה ה-10" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-an" title="960-an – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="960-an" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="960-იანები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="960-იანები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miaka_ya_960" title="Miaka ya 960 – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Miaka ya 960" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D3%A7%D0%B4_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%8F%D1%81" title="960-ӧд вояс – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="960-ӧд вояс" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni_960" title="Anni 960 – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Anni 960" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-as_%C3%A9vek" title="960-as évek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="960-as évek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D1%82%D0%B8" title="960-ти – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="960-ти" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87.%E0%A4%B8.%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AC%E0%A5%A6_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%95" title="इ.स.चे ९६० चे दशक – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="इ.स.चे ९६० चे दशक" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98" title="960-იანეფი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="960-იანეფი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%82%D8%AF_960" title="عقد 960 – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="عقد 960" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-an" title="960-an – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="960-an" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/960_ni%C3%A8ng-d%C3%A2i" title="960 nièng-dâi – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="960 nièng-dâi" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/960_watakuna" title="960 watakuna – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="960 watakuna" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D0%B5_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B" title="960-е годы – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="960-е годы" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/960s" title="960s – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="960s" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho sa Leboa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitet_960" title="Vitet 960 – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Vitet 960" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/960ini" title="960ini – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="960ini" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/960s" title="960s – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="960s" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/60._roky_10._storo%C4%8Dia" title="60. roky 10. storočia – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="60. roky 10. storočia" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/960." title="960. – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="960." data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D0%B5" title="960-е – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="960-е" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-e" title="960-e – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="960-e" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-an" title="960-an – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="960-an" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-luku" title="960-luku – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="960-luku" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-talet" title="960-talet – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="960-talet" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/960-%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80" title="960-еллар – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="960-еллар" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A9_960" title="คริสต์ทศวรรษ 960 – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="คริสต์ทศวรรษ 960" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D2%B3%D0%B0%D0%B8_960_(%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D3%A3)" title="Даҳаи 960 (мелодӣ) – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Даҳаи 960 (мелодӣ)" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/960%27lar" title="960'lar – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="960'lar" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/960%C3%BD%C3%BD" title="960ýý – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="960ýý" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" 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Byzantine Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Summer – <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Chandax" title="Siege of Chandax">Siege of Chandax</a>: A <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> fleet with an expeditionary force (comprising about 50,000 men) under <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros Phokas</a> lands on <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Crete" title="Emirate of Crete">Crete</a>. Nikephoros defeats the Muslim resistance and begins a <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">siege</a> at the capital of <a href="/wiki/Heraklion" title="Heraklion">Chandax</a>. He decides to <a href="/wiki/Blockade" title="Blockade">blockade</a> the city for the winter, while his engineers begin to construct <a href="/wiki/Siege_engine" title="Siege engine">siege engines</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Emir <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Aziz_ibn_Shu%27ayb" title="Abd al-Aziz ibn Shu'ayb">Abd al-Aziz ibn Shu'ayb</a> sends for aid by the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimids</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ifriqiya" title="Ifriqiya">Ifriqiya</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Caliphate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliphate of Córdoba">Caliphate of Córdoba</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_8" title="November 8">November 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Andrassos" title="Battle of Andrassos">Battle of Andrassos</a>: The Byzantines under <a href="/wiki/Leo_Phokas_the_Younger" title="Leo Phokas the Younger">Leo Phokas the Younger</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Hamdanid_dynasty" title="Hamdanid dynasty">Hamdanid</a> army (30,000 men) in an <a href="/wiki/Ambush" title="Ambush">ambush</a> in the passages of the <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilician</a> mountains, in south <a href="/wiki/Asia_Minor" class="mw-redirect" title="Asia Minor">Asia Minor</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>). Emir <a href="/wiki/Sayf_al-Dawla" title="Sayf al-Dawla">Sayf al-Dawla</a> barely manages to escape, and returns to <a href="/wiki/Aleppo" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a> with only 300 horsemen. The Hamdanids can no longer afford to raid in <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a>, which is a turning point in the <a href="/wiki/Arab-Byzantine_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab-Byzantine wars">Arab-Byzantine wars</a> in the East.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Mieszko I of Poland">Mieszko I</a>, a duke of the <a href="/wiki/Piast_dynasty" title="Piast dynasty">Piast Dynasty</a>, becomes prince (<i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> ruler) of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland" title="Greater Poland">Poland</a> on the death of his father <a href="/wiki/Siemomys%C5%82" title="Siemomysł">Siemomysł</a>. Mieszko continues to subdue the neighbouring tribes under his control. Two obstacles to this plan are the <a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">Western Slav</a> tribal group, the <a href="/wiki/Veleti" title="Veleti">Veleti</a> (also known as the <b>Wilzi</b> or "Wolf people") who are raiding Mieszko's lands for plunder; and the <a href="/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxon</a> border dukes, who are pushing eastwards in search of new lands to conquer.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth" title="Harald Bluetooth">Harald Bluetooth</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>, consolidates his rule over <a href="/wiki/Jutland" title="Jutland">Jutland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zealand" title="Zealand">Zealand</a>. He adopts <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, erecting a <a href="/wiki/Jelling_stones" title="Jelling stones">carved stone</a> at <a href="/wiki/Jelling" title="Jelling">Jelling</a> to honour his parents. It features a runic inscription (best-known in Denmark) and an image of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Christ</a> surrounded by interlace. The other <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavian</a> kingdoms slowly convert to Christianity (approximate date).</li> <li>June/July – <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Italy" title="Adalbert of Italy">Adalbert II</a>, co-ruler and the son of King <a href="/wiki/Berengar_II_of_Italy" title="Berengar II of Italy">Berengar II</a>, with the support of Duke <a href="/wiki/Hugh,_Margrave_of_Tuscany" title="Hugh, Margrave of Tuscany">Hugh of Tuscany</a>, invades the <a href="/wiki/Papal_States" title="Papal States">Papal States</a> under <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">Pope John XII</a>. With <a href="/wiki/Lombardy" title="Lombardy">Lombard</a> forces closing in on <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, a papal delegation is sent to King <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> (<b>the Great</b>) to appeal for assistance.</li> <li>Autumn – <a href="/wiki/Oberto_I" title="Oberto I">Oberto I</a>, margrave of the <a href="/wiki/Obertenghi" title="Obertenghi">Obertenghi</a> family, takes refuge in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. He travels with influential Italian leaders to the Saxon court of Otto I to intervene in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a> to protect him from Berengar II.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_I_of_Normandy" title="Richard I of Normandy">Richard I</a> (<b>the Fearless</b>), duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Normandy" title="Duchy of Normandy">Normandy</a>, marries <a href="/wiki/Emma_of_Paris,_Duchess_of_Normandy" title="Emma of Paris, Duchess of Normandy">Emma of Paris</a>. She is the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Hugh_the_Great" title="Hugh the Great">Hugh the Great</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_the_Franks" title="Duke of the Franks">Duke of the Franks</a>. The union gives him a permanent status to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Capet" title="House of Capet">House of Capet</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="England"> England</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dunstan" title="Dunstan">Dunstan</a> receives the <a href="/wiki/Pallium" title="Pallium">pallium</a> as archbishop of <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Canterbury" title="Diocese of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> from Pope John XII. He reforms monasteries and enforces the rule of <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Benedict" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Saint Benedict">Saint Benedict</a>: poverty, <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_counsels" title="Evangelical counsels">chastity and obedience</a> for monks.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Africa"> Africa</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum" title="Kingdom of Aksum">Kingdom of Aksum</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Eritrea" title="Eritrea">Eritrea</a>) is destroyed by <a href="/wiki/Beta_Israel" title="Beta Israel">Beta Israel</a> invaders, under the leadership of Queen <a href="/wiki/Gudit" title="Gudit">Gudit</a> (approximate date).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Asia"> Asia</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_4" title="February 4">February 4</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song Dynasty</a> is established at <a href="/wiki/Kaifeng" title="Kaifeng">Kaifeng</a> by the 33-year-old military leader <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Taizu_of_Song" title="Emperor Taizu of Song">Zhao Kuangyin</a>. He begins to unify the empire by conquering other lands and becomes the first emperor, called as <b>Taizu of Song</b>. The Song Dynasty will rule northern China for over 300 years (until <a href="/wiki/1279" title="1279">1279</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960&action=edit&section=T-7" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960&action=edit&section=T-8" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Dunstan founds the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Dunstan,_Mayfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of St Dunstan, Mayfield">Church of St. Dunstan</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="961">961</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_961" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 961">AD 961</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_961&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_961&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_2"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=961&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Byzantine_Empire_2"> Byzantine Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=961&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Chandax" title="Siege of Chandax">Siege of Chandax</a>: Byzantine forces under <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II Phokas</a> capture and pillage <a href="/wiki/Heraklion" title="Heraklion">Chandax</a> after an 8-month <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">siege</a>. Nikephoros massacres the population without mercy and carries them off into <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>, returning to <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> with Emir <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Aziz_ibn_Shu%27ayb" title="Abd al-Aziz ibn Shu'ayb">Abd al-Aziz ibn Shu'ayb</a> and his family as prisoners. The island <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Crete" title="Emirate of Crete">Emirate of Crete</a> is converted into a <a href="/wiki/Theme_(Byzantine_district)" title="Theme (Byzantine district)">Byzantine theme</a> and the remaining Muslims are converted to <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe_2"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=961&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor</a> elects his 6-year-old son <a href="/wiki/Otto_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto II</a> as <a href="/wiki/Heir_apparent" title="Heir apparent">heir apparent</a> and co-ruler at the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Diet_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Imperial Diet (Holy Roman Empire)">Imperial Diet</a> in <a href="/wiki/Worms,_Germany" title="Worms, Germany">Worms</a>. He is crowned at <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a>, and placed under the tutelage of his grandmother <a href="/wiki/Matilda_of_Ringelheim" title="Matilda of Ringelheim">Matilda</a> and his half-brother <a href="/wiki/William_(archbishop_of_Mainz)" title="William (archbishop of Mainz)">William of Mainz</a>. Otto's own brother <a href="/wiki/Bruno_the_Great" title="Bruno the Great">Bruno I</a> is charged with the provisional government of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Lorraine" title="Duchy of Lorraine">Lorraine</a> again.</li> <li>Summer – Otto I leads an expeditionary force into northern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Brenner_Pass" title="Brenner Pass">Brenner Pass</a> at <a href="/wiki/Trento" title="Trento">Trento</a>, to assist the beleaguered young Pope <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">John XII</a>. He proceeds towards <a href="/wiki/Pavia" title="Pavia">Pavia</a> – King <a href="/wiki/Berengar_II_of_Italy" title="Berengar II of Italy">Berengar II</a> sends his son and co-ruler <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Italy" title="Adalbert of Italy">Adalbert II</a> from <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> at the head of a large army to seize control of the <a href="/wiki/South_Tyrol" title="South Tyrol">Upper Adige</a> and contest Otto's entry.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">October 15</a> – Caliph <a href="/wiki/Abd-ar-Rahman_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd-ar-Rahman III">Abd-al-Rahman III</a> dies after a 32-year reign. He is succeeded by his son <a href="/wiki/Al-Hakam_II" title="Al-Hakam II">Al-Hakam II</a> as ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Caliphate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliphate of Córdoba">Caliphate of Córdoba</a> in <a href="/wiki/Al-Andalus" title="Al-Andalus">Al-Andalus</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fitjar" title="Battle of Fitjar">Battle of Fitjar</a> – A <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Viking</a> force under the sons of <a href="/wiki/Eric_Bloodaxe" title="Eric Bloodaxe">Eric Bloodaxe</a> lands on <a href="/wiki/Hordaland" title="Hordaland">Hordaland</a>. King <a href="/wiki/Haakon_the_Good" title="Haakon the Good">Haakon the Good</a> defeats the rebelling force, but is killed. <a href="/wiki/Harald_Greycloak" title="Harald Greycloak">Harald Greycloak</a> becomes ruler of the western part of <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Lombards" title="Lombards">Lombard</a> army under Adalbert II refuses to fight Otto I unless Berengar II abdicates in favor of Adalbert. Berengar refuses, and the armies retreat to their strongholds. Berengar and his family take whatever loyal soldiers remain and disperse themselves – Berengar retreats to the fortress at <a href="/wiki/Montefeltro" title="Montefeltro">Montefeltro</a> (in the <a href="/wiki/Pentapolis" title="Pentapolis">Pentapolis</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Armenia"> Armenia</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=961&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Armenia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>King <a href="/wiki/Ashot_III_of_Armenia" title="Ashot III of Armenia">Ashot III of Armenia</a> (the Merciful) moves his capital from <a href="/wiki/Kars" title="Kars">Kars</a> eastward to <a href="/wiki/Ani" title="Ani">Ani</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>). Located on a major east-west <a href="/wiki/Caravan_(travellers)" title="Caravan (travellers)">caravan</a> route, Ani will become larger than any European city, with a population of about 100,000 that will rival <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, and Constantinople. Ani also becomes the site of the royal <a href="/wiki/Mausoleum" title="Mausoleum">mausoleum</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bagratuni_dynasty" title="Bagratuni dynasty">Bagratuni</a> kings.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_2"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=961&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Art"> Art</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=961&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The "Shroud of <a href="/wiki/Suaire_de_Saint-Josse" title="Suaire de Saint-Josse">Saint Josse</a>", a rich silk <a href="/wiki/Samite" title="Samite">Samite</a> camel cloth from <a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Khurasan</a>, is made. It is preserved in the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Josse" title="Saint-Josse">Abbey of Saint-Josse-sur-Mer</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Caen" title="Caen">Caen</a> (<a href="/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a>) (approximate date).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_2"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=961&action=edit&section=T-7" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Hill_Pagoda" title="Tiger Hill Pagoda">Tiger Hill Pagoda</a> (or Huqui Tower) is built in the city of <a href="/wiki/Suzhou" title="Suzhou">Suzhou</a>, located in <a href="/wiki/Jiangsu" title="Jiangsu">Jiangsu Province</a> (<a href="/wiki/East_China" title="East China">Eastern China</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tavistock_Abbey" title="Tavistock Abbey">Tavistock Abbey</a> is founded by <a href="/wiki/Ordgar,_Ealdorman_of_Devon" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon">Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="962">962</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_962" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 962">AD 962</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_962&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_962&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_3"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=962&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Byzantine_Empire_3"> Byzantine Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=962&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/December" title="December">December</a> – <a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars#Byzantine_resurgence,_863–11th_century" title="Arab–Byzantine wars">Arab–Byzantine wars</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sack_of_Aleppo_(962)" title="Sack of Aleppo (962)">Sack of Aleppo</a>: A Byzantine expeditionary force under General <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros Phokas</a> invades northern <a href="/wiki/Bilad_al-Sham" title="Bilad al-Sham">Syria</a>, and sacks <a href="/wiki/Aleppo" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a>, capital of the <a href="/wiki/Hamdanid_dynasty" title="Hamdanid dynasty">Hamdanid</a> emir <a href="/wiki/Sayf_al-Dawla" title="Sayf al-Dawla">Sayf al-Dawla</a>. In late December Aleppo is taken by storm, with the population killed or enslaved; the city is razed. The Byzantine army takes possession of 390,000 silver <a href="/wiki/Dinar" title="Dinar">dinars</a>, 2,000 camels and 1,400 mules.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe_3"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=962&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_2" title="February 2">February 2</a> – King <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> (<b>the Great</b>) is crowned <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Holy Roman Emperor">Holy Roman Emperor</a> by Pope <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">John XII</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Old_St._Peter%27s_Basilica" title="Old St. Peter's Basilica">Old St. Peter's Basilica</a>, ending <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>'s feudal anarchy. Otto's wife <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_of_Italy" title="Adelaide of Italy">Adelaide</a> is anointed as empress; the <a href="/wiki/East_Francia" title="East Francia">East Frankish Kingdom</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Kingdom of Italy</a> are unified into a common realm, called the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – Otto I and John XII co-sign the <i><a href="/wiki/Diploma_Ottonianum" title="Diploma Ottonianum">Diploma Ottonianum</a></i>, confirming John XII as the spiritual head of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>. Otto recognizes John XII's secular control over the <a href="/wiki/Papal_States" title="Papal States">Papal States</a> – by expanding the domain over the <a href="/wiki/Exarchate_of_Ravenna" title="Exarchate of Ravenna">Exarchate of Ravenna</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Spoleto" title="Duchy of Spoleto">Duchy of Spoleto</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Benevento" title="Duchy of Benevento">Duchy of Benevento</a>.</li> <li>Summer – Otto I makes <a href="/wiki/Oberto_I" title="Oberto I">Oberto I</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Margrave" title="Margrave">margrave</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Obertenghi" title="Obertenghi">Obertenghi</a> family, <a href="/wiki/Count_palatine" title="Count palatine">count palatine</a> (a position second only to his own). He is granted the <a href="/wiki/March_of_Genoa" title="March of Genoa">March of Obertenga</a> (Eastern <a href="/wiki/Liguria" title="Liguria">Liguria</a>) and establishes his capital in <a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a>. Oberto also receives the possessions of the <a href="/wiki/Bobbio_Abbey" title="Bobbio Abbey">Abbey of Bobbio</a> (famous for its <a href="/wiki/Scriptorium" title="Scriptorium">scriptorium</a>).</li> <li>Otto I takes his army to lay <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">siege</a> at <a href="/wiki/Isola_San_Giulio" class="mw-redirect" title="Isola San Giulio">San Giulio</a>, an island within <a href="/wiki/Lake_Orta" title="Lake Orta">Lake Orta</a> (<a href="/wiki/Piedmont" title="Piedmont">Piedmont</a>), where Queen <a href="/wiki/Willa_of_Tuscany" title="Willa of Tuscany">Willa</a> (the wife of King <a href="/wiki/Berengar_II_of_Italy" title="Berengar II of Italy">Berengar II</a>) has <a href="/wiki/Barricade" title="Barricade">barricaded</a> herself. She surrenders and is allowed to go free by Otto. Willa departs for <a href="/wiki/Montefeltro" title="Montefeltro">Montefeltro</a> to join her husband.</li> <li>Otto I proceeds to lay siege to <a href="/wiki/Lake_Garda" title="Lake Garda">Lake Garda</a>, where the sons of Berengar II, <a href="/wiki/Guy_of_Ivrea" title="Guy of Ivrea">Guy of Ivrea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Italy" title="Adalbert of Italy">Adalbert II</a> (co-ruler of Italy), and their supporters are holed up. Finding severe resistance, Otto gives up the enterprise and returns to <a href="/wiki/Pavia" title="Pavia">Pavia</a>, the capital of <a href="/wiki/Lombardy" title="Lombardy">Lombardy</a>.</li> <li>Fall – Otto I receives news that John XII has betrayed him and entered into intrigues with Berengar II, but also with the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. The letters are intercepted by <a href="/wiki/Pandulf_Ironhead" title="Pandulf Ironhead">Pandulf I</a> (<b>Ironhead</b>), Lombard prince of Benevento.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Scotland"> Scotland</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=962&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Scotland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indulf" title="Indulf">Indulf</a>, king of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scots</a> and <a href="/wiki/Picts" title="Picts">Picts</a>, dies after an 8-year reign. He is killed while fighting <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a> near <a href="/wiki/Cullen,_Moray" title="Cullen, Moray">Cullen</a>, at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bauds" title="Battle of Bauds">Battle of Bauds</a>. Indulf is succeeded by his nephew <a href="/wiki/Dub,_King_of_Scotland" title="Dub, King of Scotland">Dub</a> (Dub mac Maíl Coluim) as ruler of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland" title="Kingdom of Scotland">Scotland</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_3"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=962&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_3"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=962&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St. Paul's Cathedral</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> is destroyed by fire, but rebuilt in the same year.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="963">963</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_963" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 963">AD 963</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_963&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_963&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_4"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=963&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Byzantine_Empire_4"> Byzantine Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=963&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – Emperor <a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a> dies at age 39</li></ul> <p>, probably of poison administered by his wife, Empress <a href="/wiki/Theophano_(born_Anastaso)" title="Theophano (born Anastaso)">Theophano</a>. He is succeeded by his infant son <a href="/wiki/Basil_II" title="Basil II">Basil II</a>. Theophano becomes <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> ruler, naming her other son <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a> (only 3 years old) as co-emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/July_2" title="July 2">July 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II Phokas</a> is proclaimed emperor by his troops in <a href="/wiki/Kayseri" title="Kayseri">Caesarea</a>. He sends a fleet to secure the <a href="/wiki/Bosphorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Bosphorus">Bosphorus Strait</a> against his enemies. Chief minister <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bringas" title="Joseph Bringas">Joseph Bringas</a> gathers support and closes the gates of <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>. General <a href="/wiki/Marianos_Argyros" title="Marianos Argyros">Marianos Argyros</a> is killed in a riot, forcing Bringas to flee.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_16" title="August 16">August 16</a> – Nikephoros II makes a triumphal entry in Constantinople and is hailed as 'the conqueror'. He is crowned emperor in <a href="/wiki/Hagia_Sophia" title="Hagia Sophia">Hagia Sophia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">September 20</a> – Nikephoros II marries the former Byzantine consort <a href="/wiki/Theophano_(born_Anastaso)" title="Theophano (born Anastaso)">Theophano</a>, the widow of Emperor Romanos II, bolstering his legitimacy.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe_4"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=963&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gero" title="Gero">Gero I</a>, margrave of <a href="/wiki/Merseburg" title="Merseburg">Merseburg</a>, campaigns against the <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavs</a>. He forces Prince <a href="/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Mieszko I of Poland">Mieszko I</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Polans_(western)" title="Polans (western)">Polans</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland" title="Greater Poland">Poland</a> to pay tribute to Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> (<b> the Great</b>). He expands his territory, the <i><a href="/wiki/Marca_Geronis" title="Marca Geronis">Marca Geronis</a></i> (March of Gero), to the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Oder" title="Oder">Oder River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kyiv" class="mw-redirect" title="Sviatoslav I of Kyiv">Sviatoslav I</a>, Grand Prince of <a href="/wiki/Kyivan_Rus%27" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyivan Rus'"> Kyiv</a>, begins a 2-year campaign in which he will defeat <a href="/wiki/Khazars" title="Khazars">Khazar</a> forces along the <a href="/wiki/Don_River_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Don River (Russia)">Don River</a> – vanquish the <a href="/wiki/Ossetians" title="Ossetians">Ossetes</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Circassians" title="Circassians">Circassians</a> in the northern <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a>. He also successfully attacks the <a href="/wiki/Bulgars" title="Bulgars">Bulgars</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Volga_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Volga River">Volga River</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November" title="November">November</a> – Otto arrives at <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>; Pope <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">John XII</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Italy" title="Adalbert of Italy">Adalbert II</a> (co-ruler of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a>) flee to <a href="/wiki/Campania" title="Campania">Campania</a>, taking with them most of the Papal treasury. The Roman citizens warmly receive Otto as a 'liberator'.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December" title="December">December</a> – King <a href="/wiki/Berengar_II_of_Italy" title="Berengar II of Italy">Berengar II</a> (the father of Adalbert II) surrenders at the fortress of <a href="/wiki/Montefeltro" title="Montefeltro">Montefeltro</a> to German forces. He and his wife <a href="/wiki/Willa_of_Tuscany" title="Willa of Tuscany">Willa</a> are taken prisoner and dispatched to <a href="/wiki/Bamberg" title="Bamberg">Bamberg</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a> has her beginnings at <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_City" title="Luxembourg City">Luxembourg Castle</a> (located on the <a href="/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)" title="Bock (Luxembourg)">Bock</a>), founded by <a href="/wiki/Sigfried,_Count_of_the_Ardennes" class="mw-redirect" title="Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes">Sigfried</a>, count of the <a href="/wiki/Ardennes-Verdun_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Ardennes-Verdun dynasty">Ardennes</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Asia_2"> Asia</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=963&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Chinese government of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song Dynasty</a> attempted to ban the practice of <a href="/wiki/Cremation" title="Cremation">cremation</a>; despite this decree, the lower and middle classes continued to cremate their dead until the government resolved the problem in the [[12th century], establishing public <a href="/wiki/Graveyard" class="mw-redirect" title="Graveyard">graveyards</a> for <a href="/wiki/Pauper" class="mw-redirect" title="Pauper">paupers</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Jingnan" title="Jingnan">Nanping State</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Kingdoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Ten Kingdoms">Ten Kingdoms</a> in south-central <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, is forced to surrender, when invaded by armies of the Song Dynasty.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_4"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=963&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_4"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=963&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/November_6" title="November 6">November 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Synod_of_Rome_(963)" title="Synod of Rome (963)">Synod of Rome</a>: Otto I calls a council at <a href="/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica" title="St. Peter's Basilica">St. Peter's Basilica</a>. John XII is deposed on charges that he has conducted himself dishonorably and instigated an armed <a href="/wiki/Rebellion" title="Rebellion">rebellion</a> against Otto.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_6" title="December 6">December 6</a> – Pope <a href="/wiki/Pope_Leo_VIII" title="Pope Leo VIII">Leo VIII</a> is appointed to the office of <a href="/wiki/Protonotary_apostolic" title="Protonotary apostolic">Protonotary</a> and begins his papacy as <a href="/wiki/Antipope" title="Antipope">antipope</a> of Rome – a reign with the concurrently deposed John XII.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Great_Lavra" title="Great Lavra">Monastery of Great Lavra</a> at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Athos" title="Mount Athos">Mount Athos</a> (northeastern <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>) is founded by the Byzantine monk <a href="/wiki/Athanasius_the_Athonite" title="Athanasius the Athonite">Athanasius the Athonite</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="964">964</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_964" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 964">AD 964</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_964&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_964&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Byzantine_Empire_5"> Byzantine Empire</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=964&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars#Byzantine_resurgence,_863–11th_century" title="Arab–Byzantine wars">Arab–Byzantine War</a>: Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II</a> continues the reconquest of south-eastern <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>). He recaptures <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, and reorganizes the conquered lands into new themes. In the summer, they take the fortress cities of <a href="/wiki/Anazarbus" title="Anazarbus">Anazarbus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adana" title="Adana">Adana</a>. Byzantine troops under General <a href="/wiki/John_I_Tzimiskes" title="John I Tzimiskes">John Tzimiskes</a> besiege <a href="/wiki/Mopsuestia" title="Mopsuestia">Mopsuestia</a>, but with the coming of winter he is forced to retreat to <a href="/wiki/Kayseri" title="Kayseri">Caesarea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_24" title="October 24">October 24</a>–<a href="/wiki/October_25" title="October 25">25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Rometta" title="Siege of Rometta">Siege of Rometta</a>: Nikephoros II sends an expedition to <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Sicily" class="mw-redirect" title="Emirate of Sicily">Sicily</a>. The Byzantine army (40,000 men) is sent to break the Muslim siege at <a href="/wiki/Rometta" title="Rometta">Rometta</a>, and to regain Sicily for the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. For two days a battle takes place in the area between the beach and the besieged citadel of Rometta. The <a href="/wiki/Saracens" class="mw-redirect" title="Saracens">Saracens</a> (under <a href="/wiki/Al-Hasan_ibn_Ammar" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Hasan ibn Ammar">Al-Hasan ibn Ammar</a>) manage to defeat the Byzantine relief force.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Europe_5"> Europe</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=964&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Spring – King <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Italy" title="Adalbert of Italy">Adalbert II</a> returns to the mainland of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a>, and occupies the environs of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Spoleto" title="Duchy of Spoleto">Spoleto</a>. Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> ('the Great') leaves <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> with his army, and lays <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">siege</a> to the fortress city of <a href="/wiki/Spoleto" title="Spoleto">Spoleto</a>.</li> <li>Otto I proceeds on campaign in Italy, remaining in the environs of <a href="/wiki/Lucca" title="Lucca">Lucca</a>. In the fall he leaves plague-wracked <a href="/wiki/Tuscany" title="Tuscany">Tuscany</a>, and is forced to retreat to <a href="/wiki/Liguria" title="Liguria">Liguria</a>. His rearguard is attacked by Adalbert II.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_5"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=964&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_5"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=964&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>February – Pope <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">John XII</a> returns with his supporters to Rome. He convenes a synod that deposes Antipope <a href="/wiki/Pope_Leo_VIII" title="Pope Leo VIII">Leo VIII</a> who finds refuge at the court of Otto I. John dispatches a delegation under <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Speyer" title="Bishop of Speyer">Otgar</a>, bishop of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Speyer" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer">Speyer</a>, to negotiate an agreement.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_14" title="May 14">May 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">Pope John XII</a> dies (rumoured to be by apoplexy, or at the hands of a cuckolded husband, during an illicit sexual liaison) after a 9-year reign. The Romans elect <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_V" title="Pope Benedict V">Benedict V</a>, who is acclaimed by the city militia. He begins his <a href="/wiki/Pontificate" title="Pontificate">pontificate</a> as the 131st <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">pope</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – Benedict V is deposed and ecclesiastically degraded after Otto I besieges Rome. He starves the Romans into submission and restores Leo VIII to the papal <a href="/wiki/Throne" title="Throne">throne</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Science"> Science</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=964&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: Science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Rahman_al-Sufi" title="Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi">Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi</a>, a Persian <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a>, writes the <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Fixed_Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Fixed Stars">Book of Fixed Stars</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="965">965</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_965" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 965">AD 965</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_965&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_965&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_5"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=965&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Byzantine_Empire_6"> Byzantine Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=965&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab%E2%80%93Byzantine_wars#Byzantine_resurgence,_863–11th_century" title="Arab–Byzantine wars">Arab–Byzantine War</a>: Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II</a> conquers the fortress cities of <a href="/wiki/Tarsus,_Mersin" title="Tarsus, Mersin">Tarsus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mopsuestia" title="Mopsuestia">Mopsuestia</a>. The Muslim residents abandon the defense and flee into <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>. Nikephoros completes the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>; Muslim raids into <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>) permanently cease. <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> troops under General <a href="/wiki/Niketas_Chalkoutzes" title="Niketas Chalkoutzes">Niketas Chalkoutzes</a> occupy <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, liberating the <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greek</a> population from Muslim domination.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Straits" title="Battle of the Straits">Battle of the Straits</a>: The Byzantine attempt to recover <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Sicily" class="mw-redirect" title="Emirate of Sicily">Sicily</a> fails, when the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_navy" title="Byzantine navy">Byzantine fleet</a> is annihilated by the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimids</a>. The last Byzantine stronghold on the island, <a href="/wiki/Rometta" title="Rometta">Rometta</a>, surrenders. The population is massacred, and the survivors are sold into <a href="/wiki/Muslim_slave_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim slave trade">slavery</a>. Caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-Mu%27izz_li-Din_Allah" title="Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah">Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah</a> completes the conquest of Sicily, and establishes naval superiority in the Western <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe_6"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=965&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Spring – King <a href="/wiki/Lothair_of_France" title="Lothair of France">Lothair III</a> exploits the succession crisis in <a href="/wiki/County_of_Flanders" title="County of Flanders">Flanders</a> and captures many cities, but is eventually repulsed by the supporters of <a href="/wiki/Arnulf_II,_Count_of_Flanders" title="Arnulf II, Count of Flanders">Arnulf II</a> – the son of <a href="/wiki/Baldwin_III,_Count_of_Flanders" title="Baldwin III, Count of Flanders">Baldwin III</a> and former co-ruler of Flanders. Lothair attempts to increase his influence in <a href="/wiki/Lotharingia" title="Lotharingia">Lotharingia</a>, once held by the <a href="/wiki/Carolingian_dynasty" title="Carolingian dynasty">Carolingian dynasty</a>. Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> (<b>the Great</b>) encourages resistance to Lothair's overtures.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boleslaus_I,_Duke_of_Bohemia" title="Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia">Boleslaus I</a> (<b>the Cruel</b>), duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Bohemia" title="Duchy of Bohemia">Bohemia</a>, expands his territory into the Polish territories of <a href="/wiki/Upper_Silesia" title="Upper Silesia">Upper Silesia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Poland" title="Lesser Poland">Lesser Poland</a>. By occupying the city of <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Kraków</a>, he controls important <a href="/wiki/Trade_route" title="Trade route">trade routes</a> from <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a> to <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lviv" title="Lviv">Lviv</a>. Prince <a href="/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Mieszko I of Poland">Mieszko I of Poland</a> makes an <a href="/wiki/Military_alliance" title="Military alliance">alliance</a> with Boleslaus and marries his daughter <a href="/wiki/Doubravka_of_Bohemia" title="Doubravka of Bohemia">Dobrawa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Khazar" class="mw-redirect" title="Khazar">Khazar</a> fortress city of <a href="/wiki/Sarkel" title="Sarkel">Sarkel</a>, located on the Lower <a href="/wiki/Don_River_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Don River (Russia)">Don River</a>, is captured by <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a> under Grand Prince <a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Sviatoslav I of Kiev">Sviatoslav I</a>. The city is renamed <b>Belaya Vezha</b> (<i>White Fortress</i>) and settled by <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavs</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="China"> China</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=965&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/July_12" title="July 12">July 12</a> – Emperor <a href="/wiki/Meng_Chang" title="Meng Chang">Meng Chang</a> of <a href="/wiki/Later_Shu" title="Later Shu">Later Shu</a> dies after a 30-year reign. His kingdom is invaded and incorporated into the expanding <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_6"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=965&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Literature"> Literature</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=965&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_23" title="September 23">September 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Al-Mutanabbi" title="Al-Mutanabbi">Al-Mutanabbi</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid</a> poet, returns from 5 years in <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>. He has lived at <a href="/wiki/Shiraz" title="Shiraz">Shiraz</a> under the protection of the <a href="/wiki/Buyid_dynasty" title="Buyid dynasty">Buyid</a> emir <a href="/wiki/%27Adud_al-Dawla" title="'Adud al-Dawla">'Adud al-Dawla</a>, but bandits kill him near <a href="/wiki/An_Numaniyah" title="An Numaniyah">An Numaniyah</a> (modern <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_6"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=965&action=edit&section=T-7" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pope_Leo_VIII" title="Pope Leo VIII">Pope Leo VIII</a> dies after a 13-month reign. He is succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XIII" title="Pope John XIII">John XIII</a> as the 133rd <a href="/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">pope</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="966">966</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_966" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 966">AD 966</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_966&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_966&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_6"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=966&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Byzantine_Empire_7"> Byzantine Empire</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=966&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/23_June" class="mw-redirect" title="23 June">23 June</a> - <a href="/wiki/Arab-Byzantine_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab-Byzantine Wars">Byzantine-Arab War</a>: <a href="/wiki/Arab-Byzantine_prisoner_exchanges" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab-Byzantine prisoner exchanges">A prisoner exchange</a> occurs at the border between the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Aleppo" class="mw-redirect" title="Emirate of Aleppo">Emirate of Aleppo</a> at <a href="/wiki/Samosata" class="mw-redirect" title="Samosata">Samosata</a>, headed by Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikephoros II">Nikephoros II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sayf_al-Dawla" title="Sayf al-Dawla">Sayf al-Dawla</a>, the Emir of Aleppo. The Emirate receives 3,000 captured prisoners from the region of <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a>, after its conquest by the Byzantine Emperor, as well as the poet <a href="/wiki/Abu_Firas" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Firas">Abu Firas</a>, who had been previously held prisoner by the Byzantines.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Europe_7"> Europe</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=966&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Spring – King <a href="/wiki/Lothair_of_France" title="Lothair of France">Lothair III</a> marries Princess <a href="/wiki/Emma_of_Italy" title="Emma of Italy">Emma of Italy</a> (the only daughter of <a href="/wiki/Adelaide_of_Italy" title="Adelaide of Italy">Adelaide of Burgundy</a>—second wife of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> (<b>the Great</b>), from her first marriage with King <a href="/wiki/Lothair_II_of_Italy" title="Lothair II of Italy">Lothair II</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/Bosonids" title="Bosonids">Bosonid dynasty</a>). Lothair strengthens his ties with the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a>. He temporarily remains in control of the cities of <a href="/wiki/Arras" title="Arras">Arras</a> and <a href="/wiki/Douai" title="Douai">Douai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latter becomes a flourishing <a href="/wiki/Textile" title="Textile">textile</a> market centre during the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_14" title="April 14">April 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Mieszko I of Poland">Mieszko I</a>, first duke and prince of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland" title="Greater Poland">Poland</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">baptized</a> a <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a>, which is usually considered the <a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_Poland" title="Christianization of Poland">foundation of the Polish state</a>. Mieszko's baptism, under the influence of his wife <a href="/wiki/Doubravka_of_Bohemia" title="Doubravka of Bohemia">Dobrawa</a>, brings his territories into the community of Christian countries. The lands ruled by Mieszko cover about 250,000 km², and are inhabited by about 1,2 million people around this time.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May" title="May">May</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pietro_IV_Candiano" title="Pietro IV Candiano">Pietro IV Candiano</a>, doge of <a href="/wiki/Republic_Venice" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic Venice">Venice</a>, remarries to <a href="/wiki/Waldrada_of_Tuscany" title="Waldrada of Tuscany">Waldrada of Tuscany</a>, a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Hubert,_Duke_of_Spoleto" title="Hubert, Duke of Spoleto">Hubert, Duke of Spoleto</a>, and a relative of Otto I. Waldrada brings him a large <a href="/wiki/Dowry" title="Dowry">dowry</a>, including the possessions of <a href="/wiki/Ferrara" title="Ferrara">Ferrara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Friuli" title="Friuli">Friuli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Treviso" title="Treviso">Treviso</a> (Northern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a>).</li> <li>Fall – Otto I departs for a third expedition in Italy and fights in <a href="/wiki/Lombardy" title="Lombardy">Lombardy</a> against the partisans under <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Italy" title="Adalbert of Italy">Adalbert II of Ivrea</a>. In November an imperial counter-coup in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> takes control of <a href="/wiki/Castel_Sant%27Angelo" title="Castel Sant'Angelo">Castel Sant'Angelo</a>.</li> <li>Winter – Otto I enters Rome and has the twelve principal militia leaders (the <i>Decarcones</i>) hanged. Other plotters of the coup are either executed or blinded. Otto is declared 'liberator of the Church'.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Hungary" title="Principality of Hungary">Hungarians</a> invade the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">Bulgarian Empire</a> and force <a href="/wiki/Peter_I_of_Bulgaria" title="Peter I of Bulgaria">Peter I</a>, emperor (<i><a href="/wiki/Tsar" title="Tsar">tsar</a></i>) of the Bulgarians, to conclude a <a href="/wiki/Peace_treaty" title="Peace treaty">peace treaty</a> with them. He lets them cross to attack the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Asia_3"> Asia</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=966&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ono_no_Michikaze" title="Ono no Michikaze">Ono no Michikaze</a> (<b>Ono no Tōfū</b>), Japanese <a href="/wiki/Calligraphy" title="Calligraphy">calligrapher</a>, dies after having established the foundations of the 'Waystyle' of calligraphy while serving the imperial court at <a href="/wiki/Heian-ky%C5%8D" title="Heian-kyō">Heian-kyō</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_7"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=966&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_7"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=966&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_VII_of_Jerusalem" title="John VII of Jerusalem">John VII</a>, patriarch of <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem" title="Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Death_by_burning" title="Death by burning">burned at the stake</a> by a Muslim mob after writing to Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II</a>, pleading him to intervene in <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a> and retake it from the <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Re-foundation of <a href="/wiki/Peterborough" title="Peterborough">Peterborough</a> (also called <a href="/wiki/Medeshamstede" title="Medeshamstede">Medeshamstede</a>) Abbey as a <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Benedict" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Saint Benedict">Benedictine</a> monastery by Bishop <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwold_of_Winchester" title="Æthelwold of Winchester">Æthelwold of Winchester</a> (approximate date).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="967">967</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_967" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 967">AD 967</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_967&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_967&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_7"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=967&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe_8"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=967&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Spring – Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> (<b>the Great</b>) calls for a council at <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, to present the new government under Pope <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XIII" title="Pope John XIII">John XIII</a>. He asserts his rights in the city, and insists on the occasional presence of an imperial <a href="/wiki/Judgment_(law)" title="Judgment (law)">judge</a>, alongside the <a href="/wiki/Papal_household#History" title="Papal household">papal court</a>. The era of Roman independence is over. <a href="/wiki/Grado,_Friuli-Venezia_Giulia" class="mw-redirect" title="Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia">Grado</a> becomes the patriarchal and metropolitan church of the whole of the <a href="/wiki/Veneto" title="Veneto">Veneto</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Otto I goes on a tour of the <a href="/wiki/Lombardy" title="Lombardy">Lombard</a> duchies of southern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Capua" title="Capua">Capua</a> he grants <a href="/wiki/Pandulf_Ironhead" title="Pandulf Ironhead">Pandulf I</a> (<b>Ironhead</b>) the vacant <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Spoleto" title="Duchy of Spoleto">Duchy of Spoleto and Camerino</a> and charges him with prosecuting the war against the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Benevento" title="Benevento">Benevento</a>, Otto receives the <a href="/wiki/Homage_(feudal)" title="Homage (feudal)">homage</a> of Pandulf's brother and co-ruler <a href="/wiki/Landulf_III_of_Benevento" title="Landulf III of Benevento">Landulf III</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Salerno" title="Salerno">Salerno</a> he receives also the support of <a href="/wiki/Gisulf_I_of_Salerno" title="Gisulf I of Salerno">Gisulf I</a>.</li> <li>Otto I dispatches an imperial delegation (led by a Venetian named Domenico) to <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> with assurances of his friendship and a request for Princess <a href="/wiki/Theophanu" title="Theophanu">Theophano</a> (a daughter of the late Emperor <a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a>) for his 12-year-old son <a href="/wiki/Otto_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto II</a>. As <a href="/wiki/Dowry" title="Dowry">dowry</a> Otto demands the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> holdings in southern Italy.</li> <li>Summer – <a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Sviatoslav I of Kiev">Sviatoslav I</a>, Grand Prince of <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kiev</a>, defeats Bulgar forces in the <a href="/wiki/Balkans" title="Balkans">Balkans</a> at the behest of Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II</a> (who pays him 1,500 pounds of gold to invade the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">Bulgarian Empire</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The imperial delegation arrives in <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Macedonia</a>, but goes nowhere with Nikephoros II. Far from offering <a href="/wiki/Catepanate_of_Italy" title="Catepanate of Italy">Byzantine Italy</a> as dowry for Theophano, Nikephoros refuses to accept the claims of Otto I.</li> <li>Otto I renews the imperial treaty with <a href="/wiki/Pietro_IV_Candiano" title="Pietro IV Candiano">Pietro IV Candiano</a>, doge of <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Venice</a>. He grants him commercial privileges, and protection for Venetian citizens (also the possessions of Venetian bishops).</li> <li>Winter – Otto I returns to Rome. On <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> day, John XIII crowns Otto II as co-emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a>. Although Otto II is nominated as co-ruler, he exercises no real authority.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olaf_I_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Olaf I of Norway">Olaf Tryggvason</a> flees <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Norway_(872%E2%80%931397)" title="Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)">Norway</a> with his mother, only to be attacked by <a href="/wiki/Estonian_pirates" class="mw-redirect" title="Estonian pirates">Estonian Vikings</a> (approximate date).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Arabian_Empire"> Arabian Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=967&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Arabian Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Emir <a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Dawla" title="Nasir al-Dawla">Nasir al-Dawla</a> is deposed and imprisoned at <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a> after a 32-year reign by his son <a href="/wiki/Abu_Taghlib" title="Abu Taghlib">Abu Taghlib</a>, the <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> governor, and supporters. He becomes the new ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Hamdanid_dynasty" title="Hamdanid dynasty">Emirate of Mosul</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid</a> general <a href="/wiki/Jawhar_(general)" title="Jawhar (general)">Jawhar al-Siqilli</a> launches a military campaign in the west of the <a href="/wiki/Maghreb" title="Maghreb">Maghreb</a>. He resumes his expansion, together with the <a href="/wiki/Zirid_dynasty" title="Zirid dynasty">Zirids</a>, and conquers <a href="/wiki/Fez,_Morocco" title="Fez, Morocco">Fez</a> (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Japan"> Japan</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=967&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Japan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/July_5" title="July 5">July 5</a> – Emperor <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Murakami" title="Emperor Murakami">Murakami</a> dies after a 21-year reign. He is succeeded by his 17-year-old son <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Reizei" title="Emperor Reizei">Reizei</a>, who is insane and becomes the 63rd emperor of <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_8"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=967&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_8"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=967&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Otto I completes and dedicates a <a href="/wiki/Magdeburg_Cathedral" title="Magdeburg Cathedral">new cathedral</a> at <a href="/wiki/Magdeburg" title="Magdeburg">Magdeburg</a> in <a href="/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a>. Like other imperial churches of the period, it includes a <a href="/wiki/Westwork" title="Westwork">westwork</a> – a structure attached to the entrance wall and outfitted with galleries. Otto makes Magdeburg a base for <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">missionary</a> efforts to convert the <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavs</a> to the east. The patron saint of the city is <a href="/wiki/Saint_Maurice" title="Saint Maurice">Mauritius</a>, who, as a military leader fighting for <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> against pagan armies, shares affinities with Otto himself.</li> <li>Re-foundation of <a href="/wiki/Romsey_Abbey" title="Romsey Abbey">Romsey Abbey</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> by King <a href="/wiki/Edgar_the_Peaceful" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar the Peaceful">Edgar I</a> (<b>the Peaceful</b>). He appoints <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A6rwynn" title="Mærwynn">Merewenna</a>, an English noblewoman, as <a href="/wiki/Abbess" title="Abbess">abbess</a> who becomes a foster mother to Princess <a href="/wiki/%C3%86lffl%C3%A6d" title="Ælfflæd">Ælfflæd</a> (a step-daughter of Edgar).<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_22" title="April 22">April 22</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodian</a> temple <a href="/wiki/Banteay_Srei" title="Banteay Srei">Banteay Srei</a> is consecrated and dedicated to the <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a> god <a href="/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Shiva</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="968">968</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_968" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 968">AD 968</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_968&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_968&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_8"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=968&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Byzantine_Empire_8"> Byzantine Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=968&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II</a> receives a Bulgarian embassy led by Prince <a href="/wiki/Boris_II_of_Bulgaria" title="Boris II of Bulgaria">Boris</a> (the son of Tsar <a href="/wiki/Peter_I_of_Bulgaria" title="Peter I of Bulgaria">Peter I of Bulgaria</a>), with a plea for help against the invading <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a>. Nikephoros, occupied in the East, is unable to support him. Instead he sends envoys to summon the <a href="/wiki/Pechenegs" title="Pechenegs">Pechenegs</a> to aid Boris. They <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kiev_(968)" title="Siege of Kiev (968)">besiege Kiev</a>, but Grand Prince <a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Sviatoslav I of Kiev">Sviatoslav I</a> (on campaign in Bulgaria) returns with a Kievan relief force, and defeats the Pechenegs. He drives them out into the <a href="/wiki/Steppe" title="Steppe">Steppe</a>, and sets up <a href="/wiki/Viceroy" title="Viceroy">viceroys</a> to rule his Rus' territory.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe_9"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=968&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Spring – Emperor <a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> (<b>the Great</b>) travels to <a href="/wiki/Capua" title="Capua">Capua</a> to meet there with <a href="/wiki/Ambassador" title="Ambassador">ambassadors</a> of Nikephoros II, who again reiterate their friendship, but refuse to consent to his <a href="/wiki/Dowry" title="Dowry">dowry</a> demands (see <a href="/wiki/967" title="967">967</a>). Otto invades the Byzantine <a href="/wiki/Longobardia" title="Longobardia">Theme of Langobardia</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Lombardy" title="Lombardy">Lombard</a> expeditionary force. With the assistance of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Benevento" title="Duchy of Benevento">Benevento</a>-<a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Capua" title="Principality of Capua">Capua</a> and naval support from <a href="/wiki/Pisa" title="Pisa">Pisa</a>, Otto attempts to take <a href="/wiki/Bari" title="Bari">Bari</a> by assault, but Byzantine resistance is stiff, and Otto withdraws back to <a href="/wiki/Ravenna" title="Ravenna">Ravenna</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Silistra" title="Battle of Silistra">Battle of Silistra</a>: A Kievan army (60,000 men) led by Sviatoslav I crosses the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Lower Danube</a> and defeats the Bulgarians at <a href="/wiki/Silistra" title="Silistra">Silistra</a>. He occupies most of the <a href="/wiki/Dobruja" title="Dobruja">Dobruja</a> by seizing 80 fortresses in northeastern Bulgaria. They are looted and destroyed but not permanently occupied. During the winter, Sviatoslav transfers the capital from Kiev to <a href="/wiki/Pereyaslavets" title="Pereyaslavets">Pereyaslavets</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandulf_Ironhead" title="Pandulf Ironhead">Pandulf I</a> (<b>Ironhead</b>), a Lombard prince, takes over the territory of Benevento and Capua after the death of his brother <a href="/wiki/Landulf_III_of_Benevento" title="Landulf III of Benevento">Landulf III</a>. He appoints his son <a href="/wiki/Landulf_IV_of_Benevento" title="Landulf IV of Benevento">Landulf IV</a> as co-prince of Benevento, and disinherits <a href="/wiki/Pandulf_II_of_Benevento" title="Pandulf II of Benevento">Pandulf II</a> (a son of Landulf III) as lord of <a href="/wiki/Sant%27Agata_de%27_Goti" title="Sant'Agata de' Goti">Sant'Agata</a> (located northeast of <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Ireland"> Ireland</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=968&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sulcoit" title="Battle of Sulcoit">Battle of Sulcoit</a>: The <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Ireland" title="Gaelic Ireland">Irish</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Dalcassians" title="Dalcassians">Dál gCais</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Boru" title="Brian Boru">Brian Boru</a> defeats the <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Viking</a> forces of <a href="/wiki/Limerick" title="Limerick">Limerick</a>. After the battle the Dál gCais seize and <a href="/wiki/Burning_of_Luimnech" class="mw-redirect" title="Burning of Luimnech">burn the Viking stronghold of Limerick</a>. Ending of <a href="/wiki/Norsemen" title="Norsemen">Norse</a> expansion in <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_9"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=968&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_9"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=968&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Otto I founds the <a href="/wiki/Archbishopric_of_Magdeburg" title="Archbishopric of Magdeburg">Archbishopric of Magdeburg</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> of Ravenna. He appoints <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_of_Magdeburg" title="Adalbert of Magdeburg">Adalbert</a> as the archbishop of <a href="/wiki/Magdeburg" title="Magdeburg">Magdeburg</a>. The archbishopric under Adalbert includes the bishoprics of <a href="/wiki/Prince-Bishopric_of_Brandenburg" title="Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Havelberg" title="Bishopric of Havelberg">Havelberg</a> — as well as the newly erected sees of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Dresden-Meissen" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen">Meissen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Merseburg" title="Bishopric of Merseburg">Merseburg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Naumburg-Zeitz" title="Bishopric of Naumburg-Zeitz">Naumburg-Zeitz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Mieszko I of Poland">Mieszko I</a>, duke and prince of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland" title="Greater Poland">Poland</a>, constructs <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84_Cathedral" title="Poznań Cathedral">Poznań Cathedral</a> within the fortified stronghold (<i><a href="/wiki/Gord_(archaeology)" title="Gord (archaeology)">gord</a></i>) of <a href="/wiki/Pozna%C5%84" title="Poznań">Poznań</a>. The settlement becomes a <a href="/wiki/Bishopric" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishopric">bishopric</a>, Mieszko appoints <a href="/wiki/Jordan_(bishop_of_Poland)" title="Jordan (bishop of Poland)">Jordan</a> as the first bishop.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="969">969</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/AD_969" class="mw-redirect" title="AD 969">AD 969</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_969&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AD_969&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_place_9"> By place</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-1" title="Edit section: By place"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Byzantine_Empire_9"> Byzantine Empire</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-2" title="Edit section: Byzantine Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/October_28" title="October 28">October 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Antioch_(968%E2%80%93969)" title="Siege of Antioch (968–969)">Siege of Antioch</a>: Byzantine general <a href="/wiki/Michael_Bourtzes" title="Michael Bourtzes">Michael Bourtzes</a> (during a night attack) seizes part of <a href="/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch">Antioch</a>'s fortifications. The capture of the city from the <a href="/wiki/Hamdanid_dynasty" title="Hamdanid dynasty">Hamdanids</a> is completed three days later, when reinforcements under the <i><a href="/wiki/Stratopedarches" title="Stratopedarches">stratopedarches</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Peter_(stratopedarches)" title="Peter (stratopedarches)">Peter Phokas</a> arrive. The <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> army then moves deeper into <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syrian</a> territory — besieging and taking the city of <a href="/wiki/Aleppo" title="Aleppo">Aleppo</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a> – Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II</a> is murdered in the royal palace of <a href="/wiki/Boukoleon_Palace" title="Boukoleon Palace">Boukoleon</a> at <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> after a 6-year reign. Former friends have acted on the instructions of his wife <a href="/wiki/Theophano_(born_Anastaso)" title="Theophano (born Anastaso)">Theophano</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nikephoros is succeeded by his nephew <a href="/wiki/John_I_Tzimiskes" title="John I Tzimiskes">John I Tzimiskes</a>, who becomes co-emperor and <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a>. He sends Theophano into <a href="/wiki/Exile" title="Exile">exile</a> to the island of <a href="/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkada" title="Büyükada">Prinkipo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Prince_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Islands">Prince Islands</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Europe_10"> Europe</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-3" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_I_of_Bulgaria" title="Peter I of Bulgaria">Peter I</a>, emperor (<i><a href="/wiki/Tsar" title="Tsar">tsar</a></i>) of the <a href="/wiki/First_Bulgarian_Empire" title="First Bulgarian Empire">Bulgarian Empire</a>, suffers a <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a> and abdicates the throne in favour of his eldest son <a href="/wiki/Boris_II_of_Bulgaria" title="Boris II of Bulgaria">Boris II</a>. He arrives (after being an honorary <a href="/wiki/Hostage" title="Hostage">hostage</a> at Constantinople) in <a href="/wiki/Veliki_Preslav" title="Veliki Preslav">Preslav</a> and is proclaimed as the new ruler. Boris regains lost territory from the <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kievan Rus'</a> and recaptures <a href="/wiki/Pereyaslavets" title="Pereyaslavets">Pereyaslavets</a>, an important trade city at the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Summer – Grand Prince <a href="/wiki/Sviatoslav_I_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Sviatoslav I of Kiev">Sviatoslav I</a> invades Bulgaria at the head of a Kievan army, which includes <a href="/wiki/Pechenegs" title="Pechenegs">Pecheneg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Hungary" title="Principality of Hungary">Hungarian</a> auxiliary forces. He defeats the Bulgarians in a major battle and retakes Pereyaslavets. Boris II capitulates and impales 300 Bulgarian <a href="/wiki/Boyar" title="Boyar">boyars</a> for disloyalty. Sviatoslav assigns garrisons to the conquered fortresses in Northern Bulgaria.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandulf_Ironhead" title="Pandulf Ironhead">Pandulf Ironhead</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Benevento" title="Duchy of Benevento">Benevento</a> and <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Capua" title="Principality of Capua">Capua</a>, leads the siege of <a href="/wiki/Bovino" title="Bovino">Bovino</a>. He is captured by the Byzantines and taken in chains to <a href="/wiki/Bari" title="Bari">Bari</a>, and jailed in Constantinople. Neapolitan forces under <a href="/wiki/Marinus_II_of_Naples" title="Marinus II of Naples">Marinus II</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Naples" title="Duchy of Naples">Naples</a>, invade Benevento-Capua, capture the city of <a href="/wiki/Avellino" title="Avellino">Avellino</a> and then lay siege to <a href="/wiki/Capua" title="Capua">Capua</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I 'the Great', Holy Roman Emperor</a>, assembles a large expeditionary force at <a href="/wiki/Pavia" title="Pavia">Pavia</a>, joined by <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Spoleto" title="Duchy of Spoleto">Spoletan</a> troops. He counter-attacks, relieves the siege of Capua and devastates the area around Naples. Otto enters Benevento, where he is received as 'liberator' by <a href="/wiki/Landulf_IV_of_Benevento" title="Landulf IV of Benevento">Landulf IV</a> and in the cities of <a href="/wiki/Apulia" title="Apulia">Apulia</a> (Southern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Africa_2"> Africa</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-4" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_6" title="February 6">February 6</a>–<a href="/wiki/July_9" title="July 9">July 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fatimid_conquest_of_Egypt" title="Fatimid conquest of Egypt">Fatimid conquest of Egypt</a>: Caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-Mu%27izz_li-Din_Allah" title="Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah">Al-Mu'izz</a>'s army under <a href="/wiki/Jawhar_(general)" title="Jawhar (general)">General Jawhar</a> invades <a href="/wiki/Egypt_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="Egypt in the Middle Ages">Egypt</a>. Jawhar occupies the lands around the <a href="/wiki/Nile" title="Nile">Nile</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Ikhshidid_dynasty" title="Ikhshidid dynasty">Ikhshidids</a> after a <a href="/wiki/Siege" title="Siege">siege</a> at <a href="/wiki/Giza" title="Giza">Giza</a> and the capitulation of <a href="/wiki/Fustat" title="Fustat">Fustat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Asia_4"> Asia</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-5" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_27" title="September 27">September 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Reizei" title="Emperor Reizei">Emperor Reizei</a> abdicates the throne of <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> (due to a <a href="/wiki/Mental_disorder" title="Mental disorder">mental illness</a>) after a 2-year reign. He is succeeded by his 10-year-old brother <a href="/wiki/Emperor_En%27y%C5%AB" title="Emperor En'yū">En'yū</a>, who becomes the 64th emperor.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="By_topic_10"> By topic</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-6" title="Edit section: By topic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Geography"> Geography</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-7" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Hawqal" title="Ibn Hawqal">Ibn Hawqal</a> concludes his travels.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading6"><h6 id="Religion_10"> Religion</h6><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=969&action=edit&section=T-8" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Summer – <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XIII" title="Pope John XIII">Pope John XIII</a> convenes a <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>. He raises the bishopric of <a href="/wiki/Benevento" title="Benevento">Benevento</a> to <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Benevento" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Benevento">Archbishopric of Benevento</a>. The city is made a metropolitan see over 10 bishoprics in Byzantine <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Foggia" title="Province of Foggia">Capitanata</a> (Southern Italy).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Significant_people">Significant people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960s&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Significant people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Rahman_III" title="Abd al-Rahman III">Abd al-Rahman III</a> caliph of Córdoba</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto I</a> of Holy Roman empire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Muti" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Muti">Al-Muti</a> caliph of Baghdad</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Hakam_II" title="Al-Hakam II">Al-Hakam II</a> caliph of Córdoba</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Mu%27izz_li-Din_Allah" title="Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah">Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah</a> of Fatimid dynasty</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">Pope John XII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_V" title="Pope Benedict V">Pope Benedict V</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Leo_VIII" title="Pope Leo VIII">Pope Leo VIII</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable noprint selfref">Transcluding articles: <a href="/wiki/960" title="960">960</a>, <a href="/wiki/961" title="961">961</a>, <a href="/wiki/962" title="962">962</a>, <a href="/wiki/963" title="963">963</a>, <a href="/wiki/964" title="964">964</a>, <a href="/wiki/965" title="965">965</a>, <a href="/wiki/966" title="966">966</a>, <a href="/wiki/967" title="967">967</a>, <a href="/wiki/968" title="968">968</a>, and <a href="/wiki/969" title="969">969</a></div> <p><b>960</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Nasr_Mansur" title="Abu Nasr Mansur">Abu Nasr Mansur</a>, Persian <a href="/wiki/Mathematics_in_medieval_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematics in medieval Islam">mathematician</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aimoin_of_Fleury" title="Aimoin of Fleury">Aimoin</a>, French monk and <a href="/wiki/Chronicle" title="Chronicle">chronicler</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnulf_II,_Count_of_Flanders" title="Arnulf II, Count of Flanders">Arnulf II</a> (<b>the Younger</b>), Frankish <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a> (or <a href="/wiki/961" title="961">961</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagrat_III_of_Georgia" title="Bagrat III of Georgia">Bagrat III</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Abkhazia" title="Kingdom of Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/1014" title="1014">1014</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernward_of_Hildesheim" title="Bernward of Hildesheim">Bernward</a>, bishop of <a href="/wiki/Bishopric_of_Hildesheim" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishopric of Hildesheim">Hildesheim</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constantine_VIII" title="Constantine VIII">Constantine VIII</a>, Byzantine emperor (d. <a href="/wiki/1028" title="1028">1028</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eckard_I,_Margrave_of_Meissen" title="Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen">Eckard I</a>, German nobleman (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fan_Kuan" title="Fan Kuan">Fan Kuan</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Landscape_painting" title="Landscape painting">landscape painter</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gershom_ben_Judah" title="Gershom ben Judah">Gershom ben Judah</a>, German <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gormflaith_ingen_Murchada" class="mw-redirect" title="Gormflaith ingen Murchada">Gormflaith ingen Murchada</a>, Irish queen (d. <a href="/wiki/1030" title="1030">1030</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotthard_of_Hildesheim" title="Gotthard of Hildesheim">Gotthard</a>, bishop of Hildesheim (d. <a href="/wiki/1038" title="1038">1038</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_III_of_Maine" title="Hugh III of Maine">Hugh III</a>, French nobleman (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indra_Pala" title="Indra Pala">Indra Pala</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kamarupa" title="Kamarupa">Kamarupa</a> (India) (d. <a href="/wiki/990" title="990">990</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empress_Mingde_(Song_dynasty)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress Mingde (Song dynasty)">Li</a>, empress consort of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song Dynasty</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1004" title="1004">1004</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mazu_(goddess)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mazu (goddess)">Mazu</a>, Chinese fisherman's daughter and worshipped as <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoist</a> goddess (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharaf_al-Dawla" title="Sharaf al-Dawla">Sharaf al-Dawla</a>, Buyid <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kerman" title="Kerman">Kerman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fars_province" title="Fars province">Fars</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigurd_the_Stout" title="Sigurd the Stout">Sigurd the Stout</a>, Viking nobleman (<a href="/wiki/Earl" title="Earl">earl</a>) (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweyn_Forkbeard" title="Sweyn Forkbeard">Sweyn Forkbeard</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a> (d. 1014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xu_You_(Southern_Tang)" title="Xu You (Southern Tang)">Xu You</a>, official and court minister of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Tang" title="Southern Tang">Southern Tang</a></li></ul> <p><b>961</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Seongjong_of_Goryeo" title="Seongjong of Goryeo">Seongjong</a>, ruler of <a href="/wiki/Goryeo" title="Goryeo">Goryeo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/997" title="997">997</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Tha%27alibi" title="Al-Tha'alibi">Al-Tha'alibi</a>, Persian historian and writer (d. <a href="/wiki/1038" title="1038">1038</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnulf_II,_Count_of_Flanders" title="Arnulf II, Count of Flanders">Arnulf II, Count of Flanders</a> (the Younger), Frankish <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a> (or <a href="/wiki/960" title="960">960</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_of_Wilton" title="Edith of Wilton">Edith of Wilton</a>, English princess and <a href="/wiki/Nun" title="Nun">nun</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Michikane" title="Fujiwara no Michikane">Fujiwara no Michikane</a>, Japanese nobleman (d. <a href="/wiki/995" title="995">995</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kou_Zhun" title="Kou Zhun">Kou Zhun</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Grand_chancellor_(China)" title="Grand chancellor (China)">Grand chancellor</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahendradatta" title="Mahendradatta">Mahendradatta</a>, queen of <a href="/wiki/Bali" title="Bali">Bali</a> (<a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/1011" title="1011">1011</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietro_II_Orseolo" title="Pietro II Orseolo">Pietro II Orseolo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doge_of_Venice" title="Doge of Venice">Doge of Venice</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1009" title="1009">1009</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramiro_III_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Ramiro III of León">Ramiro III</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Kingdom of León">León</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/985" title="985">985</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigmundur_Brestisson" title="Sigmundur Brestisson">Sigmundur Brestisson</a>, Viking chieftain (d. <a href="/wiki/1005" title="1005">1005</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>962</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bernard-Roger,_Count_of_Bigorre" title="Bernard-Roger, Count of Bigorre">Bernard Roger</a>, French <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Martyr" title="Edward the Martyr">Edward II</a> (<b>the Martyr</b>), king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey,_Count_of_Eu" title="Geoffrey, Count of Eu">Geoffrey</a> (or <b>Godfrey</b>), French nobleman (d. <a href="/wiki/1015" title="1015">1015</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Faradi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Faradi">Ibn Faradi</a>, Moorish scholar and historian (d. <a href="/wiki/1012" title="1012">1012</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Mei" title="Liu Mei">Liu Mei</a>, Chinese official and general (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odilo_of_Cluny" title="Odilo of Cluny">Odilo of Cluny</a>, French Benedictine <a href="/wiki/Abbot" title="Abbot">abbot</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1049" title="1049">1049</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rogneda_of_Polotsk" title="Rogneda of Polotsk">Rogneda of Polotsk</a>, Grand Princess of <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kiev</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1002" title="1002">1002</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Qinruo" title="Wang Qinruo">Wang Qinruo</a>, Chinese chancellor (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Volpiano" title="William of Volpiano">William of Volpiano</a>, Italian abbot and architect (d. <a href="/wiki/1031" title="1031">1031</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>963</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Anna_Porphyrogenita" title="Anna Porphyrogenita">Anna Porphyrogenita</a>, Grand Princess of <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Kiev</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1011" title="1011">1011</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_17" title="April 17">April 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sweyn_Forkbeard" title="Sweyn Forkbeard">Sweyn Forkbeard</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Norway_(872%E2%80%931397)" title="Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)">Norway</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1014" title="1014">1014</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_of_Wilton" title="Edith of Wilton">Edith of Wilton</a>, English princess and <a href="/wiki/Abbess" title="Abbess">abbess</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Jiqian" title="Li Jiqian">Li Jiqian</a>, Chinese governor and rebel leader (d. <a href="/wiki/1004" title="1004">1004</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuh_II" title="Nuh II">Nuh II</a>, emir of the <a href="/wiki/Samanid_Empire" title="Samanid Empire">Samanid Dynasty</a> (<a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/997" title="997">997</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samsam_al-Dawla" title="Samsam al-Dawla">Samsam al-Dawla</a>, Buyid <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snorri_Go%C3%B0i" title="Snorri Goði">Snorri Goði</a>, Icelandic <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Viking</a> chieftain (d. <a href="/wiki/1031" title="1031">1031</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>964</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertha_of_Burgundy" title="Bertha of Burgundy">Bertha of Burgundy</a>, Frankish queen consort (d. <a href="/wiki/1010" title="1010">1010</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Heonae" title="Queen Heonae">Heonae</a>, Korean queen consort and <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1029" title="1029">1029</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Wenzhi" title="Liu Wenzhi">Liu Wenzhi</a>, official of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song Dynasty</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1028" title="1028">1028</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>965</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dudo_of_Saint-Quentin" title="Dudo of Saint-Quentin">Dudo of Saint-Quentin</a>, Norman <a href="/wiki/Historian" title="Historian">historian</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_of_Luxembourg" title="Frederick of Luxembourg">Frederick of Luxembourg</a>, count of <a href="/wiki/Moselle" title="Moselle">Moselgau</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1019" title="1019">1019</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerberga_of_Burgundy" title="Gerberga of Burgundy">Gerberga of Burgundy</a>, duchess consort of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Swabia" title="Duchy of Swabia">Swabia</a> (or <a href="/wiki/966" title="966">966</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_II,_Duke_of_Lower_Lorraine" title="Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine">Godfrey II</a>, count and duke of <a href="/wiki/Lower_Lorraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Lorraine">Lower Lorraine</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1023" title="1023">1023</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A1rek_of_Tj%C3%B8tta" title="Hárek of Tjøtta">Hárek of Tjøtta</a>, Norwegian chieftain (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_I,_Count_of_Emp%C3%BAries" title="Hugh I, Count of Empúries">Hugh I</a>, count of <a href="/wiki/County_of_Emp%C3%BAries" title="County of Empúries">Empúries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peralada" title="Peralada">Peralada</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham" title="Ibn al-Haytham">Ibn al-Haytham</a>, Arab <a href="/wiki/Astronomy_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world" title="Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world">astronomer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Physics_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world" title="Physics in the medieval Islamic world">physicist</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1040" title="1040">1040</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_of_Vercelli" title="Leo of Vercelli">Leo of Vercelli</a>, German bishop (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharif_al-Murtaza" title="Sharif al-Murtaza">Sharif al-Murtaza</a>, Buyid <a href="/wiki/Shia_Islam" title="Shia Islam">Shia</a> scholar (d. <a href="/wiki/1044" title="1044">1044</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodoric_I,_Duke_of_Upper_Lorraine" title="Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine">Theodoric I</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Lorraine" title="Duchy of Lorraine">Upper Lorraine</a> (approximate date)</li></ul> <p><b>966</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready" title="Æthelred the Unready">Æthelred II</a> (<b>the Unready</b>), king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">England</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_al-Sulayhi" title="Ali al-Sulayhi">Ali al-Sulayhi</a>, sultan of <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tihamah" title="Tihamah">Tihamah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1066" title="1066">1066</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ding_Wei_(Song_dynasty)" title="Ding Wei (Song dynasty)">Ding Wei</a>, grand chancellor of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1037" title="1037">1037</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Kint%C5%8D" title="Fujiwara no Kintō">Fujiwara no Kintō</a>, Japanese <a href="/wiki/Japanese_poetry" title="Japanese poetry">poet</a> and bureaucrat (d. <a href="/wiki/1041" title="1041">1041</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Michinaga" title="Fujiwara no Michinaga">Fujiwara no Michinaga</a>, Japanese <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1028" title="1028">1028</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerberga_of_Burgundy" title="Gerberga of Burgundy">Gerberga of Burgundy</a>, duchess of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Swabia" title="Duchy of Swabia">Swabia</a> (or <a href="/wiki/965" title="965">965</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Heonjeong" title="Queen Heonjeong">Heonjeong</a>, queen of <a href="/wiki/Goryeo" title="Goryeo">Goryeo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/992" title="992">992</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hisham_II" title="Hisham II">Hisham II</a>, caliph of <a href="/wiki/Caliphate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliphate of Córdoba">Córdoba</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/1013" title="1013">1013</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_III_of_Scotland" title="Kenneth III of Scotland">Kenneth III</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland" title="Kingdom of Scotland">Scotland</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_V_of_France" title="Louis V of France">Louis V</a>, king of the <a href="/wiki/West_Francia" title="West Francia">West Frankish Kingdom</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/987" title="987">987</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lu_Zongdao" title="Lu Zongdao">Lu Zongdao</a>, Chinese official (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sei_Sh%C5%8Dnagon" title="Sei Shōnagon">Sei Shōnagon</a>, Japanese poet and <a href="/wiki/Lady-in-waiting" title="Lady-in-waiting">court lady</a> (approximate date)</li></ul> <p><b>967</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/December_7" title="December 7">December 7</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ab%C5%AB-Sa%27%C4%ABd_Abul-Khayr" class="mw-redirect" title="Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr">Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr</a>, Persian <a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufi</a> poet (d. <a href="/wiki/1049" title="1049">1049</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_I_of_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolesław I of Poland">Bolesław I</a> (<b>the Brave</b>), king of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland" title="Greater Poland">Poland</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1025" title="1025">1025</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothelo_I,_Duke_of_Lorraine" title="Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine">Gothelo I</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Lorraine" title="Duchy of Lorraine">Lorraine</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lin_Bu" title="Lin Bu">Lin Bu</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Chinese_poetry" title="Chinese poetry">poet</a> and calligrapher (d. <a href="/wiki/1028" title="1028">1028</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vahram_Pahlavouni" title="Vahram Pahlavouni">Vahram Pahlavouni</a>, prince of <a href="/wiki/Bjni" title="Bjni">Bjni</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Armenia_(antiquity)" title="Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)">Armenia</a>) (d. <a href="/wiki/1045" title="1045">1045</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_of_Speyer" title="Walter of Speyer">Walter of Speyer</a>, German bishop and poet (d. <a href="/wiki/1027" title="1027">1027</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>968</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/November_29" title="November 29">November 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Kazan" title="Emperor Kazan">Kazan</a>, emperor of <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1008" title="1008">1008</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yorinobu" title="Minamoto no Yorinobu">Minamoto no Yorinobu</a>, Japanese <a href="/wiki/Samurai" title="Samurai">samurai</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1048" title="1048">1048</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_23" title="December 23">December 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Zhenzong" title="Emperor Zhenzong">Zhen Zong</a>, emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song Dynasty</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1022" title="1022">1022</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisela_of_France,_Countess_of_Ponthieu" title="Gisela of France, Countess of Ponthieu">Gisela</a>, French princess and daughter of <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Capet" title="Hugh Capet">Hugh Capet</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1002" title="1002">1002</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princess_Pan" title="Princess Pan">Pan</a>, Chinese princess and wife of Zhen Zong (d. <a href="/wiki/989" title="989">989</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanos_III_Argyros" title="Romanos III Argyros">Romanos III</a>, emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1034" title="1034">1034</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>969</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Badi%27_al-Zaman_al-Hamadani" title="Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani">Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persian_literature" title="Persian literature">Persian poet</a> and writer (d. <a href="/wiki/1007" title="1007">1007</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilal_al-Sabi%27" title="Hilal al-Sabi'">Hilal al-Sabi'</a>, Buyid bureaucrat and historian (d. <a href="/wiki/1056" title="1056">1056</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judith_of_Hungary" title="Judith of Hungary">Judith of Hungary</a>, princess and queen of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Poland" title="Greater Poland">Poland</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/988" title="988">988</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empress_Liu_(Zhenzong)" title="Empress Liu (Zhenzong)">Liu</a>, empress and <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1033" title="1033">1033</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathar_Shah" title="Nathar Shah">Nathar Shah</a>, Tamil <a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">mystic</a> and preacher (d. <a href="/wiki/1039" title="1039">1039</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_V,_Duke_of_Aquitaine" title="William V, Duke of Aquitaine">William V 'the Great'</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Aquitaine" title="Duchy of Aquitaine">Aquitaine</a> (d. <a href="/wiki/1030" title="1030">1030</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable noprint selfref">Transcluding articles: <a href="/wiki/960" title="960">960</a>, <a href="/wiki/961" title="961">961</a>, <a href="/wiki/962" title="962">962</a>, <a href="/wiki/963" title="963">963</a>, <a href="/wiki/964" title="964">964</a>, <a href="/wiki/965" title="965">965</a>, <a href="/wiki/966" title="966">966</a>, <a href="/wiki/967" title="967">967</a>, <a href="/wiki/968" title="968">968</a>, and <a href="/wiki/969" title="969">969</a></div> <p><b>960</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_31" title="May 31">May 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Morosuke" title="Fujiwara no Morosuke">Fujiwara no Morosuke</a>, Japanese statesman (b. <a href="/wiki/909" title="909">909</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Eadburh_of_Winchester" title="Eadburh of Winchester">Eadburh of Winchester</a>, English princess and saint</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_23" title="June 23">June 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Feng_Yanji" title="Feng Yanji">Feng Yanji</a>, chancellor of Southern Tang (b. <a href="/wiki/903" title="903">903</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">August 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Li_Gu_(Later_Zhou)" title="Li Gu (Later Zhou)">Li Gu</a>, chancellor of <a href="/wiki/Later_Zhou" title="Later Zhou">Later Zhou</a> (b. 903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfric_(bishop_of_Hereford)" title="Ælfric (bishop of Hereford)">Ælfric</a>, bishop of <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Hereford" title="Diocese of Hereford">Hereford</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adele_of_Vermandois" title="Adele of Vermandois">Adele of Vermandois</a>, Frankish noblewoman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_I_of_Astarac" title="Arnold I of Astarac">Arnold I of Astarac</a>, Frankish nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_the_Dane" title="Bernard the Dane">Bernard the Dane</a>, Viking nobleman (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%8Caslav_of_Serbia" title="Časlav of Serbia">Časlav</a>, prince of <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Serbia_(early_medieval)" title="Principality of Serbia (early medieval)">Serbia</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_I_(Nestorian_patriarch)" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmanuel I (Nestorian patriarch)">Emmanuel I</a>, patriarch of the <a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East">Church of the East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulk_II,_Count_of_Anjou" title="Fulk II, Count of Anjou">Fulk II</a> (<b>the Good</b>), Frankish nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gao_Baorong" title="Gao Baorong">Gao Baorong</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Jingnan" title="Jingnan">Nanping</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ten_Kingdoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Ten Kingdoms">Ten Kingdoms</a>) (b. <a href="/wiki/920" title="920">920</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_II_of_Abkhazia" title="George II of Abkhazia">George II</a>, king of Abkhazia (Georgia)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gopala_II" title="Gopala II">Gopala II</a>, ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Pala_Empire" title="Pala Empire">Pala Empire</a> (India)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guan_Tong" title="Guan Tong">Guan Tong</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Landscape_painting" title="Landscape painting">landscape painter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justan_I_ibn_Marzuban_I" title="Justan I ibn Marzuban I">Justan I ibn Marzuban</a>, Sallarid ruler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lhachen_Dpalgyimgon" class="mw-redirect" title="Lhachen Dpalgyimgon">Lhachen Dpalgyimgon</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Mauyul" class="mw-redirect" title="Mauyul">Mauyul</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibet</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murchadh_mac_Aodha" title="Murchadh mac Aodha">Murchadh mac Aodha</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/U%C3%AD_Maine" class="mw-redirect" title="Uí Maine">Uí Maine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratna_Pala" title="Ratna Pala">Ratna Pala</a>, king of Kamarupa (India) (b. 920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siemomys%C5%82" title="Siemomysł">Siemomysł</a>, duke of the <a href="/wiki/Piast_dynasty" title="Piast dynasty">Piast Dynasty</a> (<a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Garc%C3%A9s_of_F%C3%A9zensac" title="William Garcés of Fézensac">William Garés</a>, Frankish nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yel%C3%BC_Lihu" title="Yelü Lihu">Yelü Lihu</a>, prince of the <a href="/wiki/Khitan_people" title="Khitan people">Khitan Empire</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/911_(year)" class="mw-redirect" title="911 (year)">911</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>961</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/July_17" title="July 17">July 17</a> – <a href="/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Du" title="Empress Dowager Du">Du</a>, empress dowager of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">August 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Li_Jing_(Southern_Tang)" title="Li Jing (Southern Tang)">Li Jing</a>, emperor of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Tang" title="Southern Tang">Southern Tang</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/916" title="916">916</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_19" title="September 19">September 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Helena_Lekapene" title="Helena Lekapene">Helena Lekapene</a>, Byzantine empress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Artald_of_Reims" title="Artald of Reims">Artald</a>, archbishop of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Reims" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims">Reims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">October 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Rahman_III" title="Abd al-Rahman III">Abd al-Rahman III</a>, caliph of <a href="/wiki/Caliphate_of_C%C3%B3rdoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Caliphate of Córdoba">Córdoba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Malik_I_(Samanid_emir)" title="Abd al-Malik I (Samanid emir)">Abd al-Malik I</a>, Samanid emir (b. <a href="/wiki/944" title="944">944</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu%27l-Qasim_Unujur_ibn_al-Ikhshid" title="Abu'l-Qasim Unujur ibn al-Ikhshid">Abu'l-Qasim Unujur ibn al-Ikhshid</a>, Ikhshidid ruler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adarnase_V_of_Tao" title="Adarnase V of Tao">Adarnase V</a>, prince of <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Tao-Klarjeti" class="mw-redirect" title="Principality of Tao-Klarjeti">Tao-Klarjeti</a> (<a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atto_of_Vercelli" title="Atto of Vercelli">Atto of Vercelli</a>, Lombard bishop (b. <a href="/wiki/885" title="885">885</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ava_of_Cerdanya" title="Ava of Cerdanya">Ava of Cerdanya</a>, countess <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> of <a href="/wiki/County_of_Cerdanya" title="County of Cerdanya">Cerdanya</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_of_Besal%C3%BA" title="County of Besalú">Besalú</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butuga_II" title="Butuga II">Butuga II</a>, ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Western_Ganga_dynasty" title="Western Ganga dynasty">Western Ganga Dynasty</a> (<a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Masatada" title="Fujiwara no Masatada">Fujiwara no Masatada</a>, Japanese <a href="/wiki/Japanese_poetry" title="Japanese poetry">poet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haakon_the_Good" title="Haakon the Good">Haakon the Good</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Norway_(872%E2%80%931397)" title="Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landulf_II_of_Benevento" title="Landulf II of Benevento">Landulf II of Benevento</a> (the Red), Lombard prince</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Tao_(Five_Dynasties)" title="Li Tao (Five Dynasties)">Li Tao</a>, Chinese chancellor (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minamoto_no_Tsunemoto" title="Minamoto no Tsunemoto">Minamoto no Tsunemoto</a>, Japanese <a href="/wiki/Samurai" title="Samurai">samurai</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/894" title="894">894</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_II_of_Rouergue" title="Raymond II of Rouergue">Raymond II of Rouergue</a>, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_II,_Marquess_of_Montferrat" class="mw-redirect" title="William II, Marquess of Montferrat">William II, Marquess of Montferrat</a>, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)</li></ul> <p><b>962</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/April_26" title="April 26">April 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Adalbero_I_of_Metz" title="Adalbero I of Metz">Adalbero I</a>, bishop of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Metz" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz">Metz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_23" title="May 23">May 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Guibert_of_Gembloux" title="Guibert of Gembloux">Guibert</a>, Frankish abbot (b. <a href="/wiki/892" title="892">892</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">October 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gerloc" title="Gerloc">Gerloc</a>, Frankish noblewoman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwald,_Ealdorman_of_East_Anglia" class="mw-redirect" title="Æthelwald, Ealdorman of East Anglia">Æthelwald</a>, ealdorman of <a href="/wiki/East_Anglia" title="East Anglia">East Anglia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baldwin_III,_Count_of_Flanders" title="Baldwin III, Count of Flanders">Baldwin III</a> (<b>the Young</b>), Frankish nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Constantine_of_Vienne" title="Charles Constantine of Vienne">Charles Constantine</a>, Frankish nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dong_Yuan" title="Dong Yuan">Dong Yuan</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Painting" title="Painting">painter</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gao_Baoxu" title="Gao Baoxu">Gao Baoxu</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Jingnan" title="Jingnan">Nanping</a> (<a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>) (b. <a href="/wiki/924" title="924">924</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gauzelin_of_Toul" title="Gauzelin of Toul">Gauzelin</a>, Frankish nobleman and bishop</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamza_al-Isfahani" title="Hamza al-Isfahani">Hamza al-Isfahani</a>, Persian historian (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Vermandois_(bishop)" title="Hugh of Vermandois (bishop)">Hugh of Vermandois</a>, Frankish <a href="/wiki/Archbishop" title="Archbishop">archbishop</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/920" title="920">920</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_az-Zayyat_(governor_of_Tarsus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn az-Zayyat (governor of Tarsus)">Ibn az-Zayyat</a>, Hamdanid governor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indulf" title="Indulf">Indulf</a> (<b>the Aggressor</b>), king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland" title="Kingdom of Scotland">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Congxiao" title="Liu Congxiao">Liu Congxiao</a>, Chinese general (b. <a href="/wiki/906" title="906">906</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ordo%C3%B1o_IV_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Ordoño IV of León">Ordoño IV</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Kingdom of León">León</a> (or <a href="/wiki/963" title="963">963</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigurd_Haakonsson" title="Sigurd Haakonsson">Sigurd Haakonsson</a>, Norse <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Viking</a> nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Taillefer_I" title="William Taillefer I">William Taillefer I</a>, Frankish nobleman</li></ul> <p><b>963</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Romanos_II" title="Romanos II">Romanos II</a>, Byzantine emperor (b. <a href="/wiki/938" title="938">938</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ja%27far_Ahmad_ibn_Muhammad" title="Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad">Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad</a>, Saffarid emir (b. <a href="/wiki/906" title="906">906</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_3" title="April 3">April 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_III,_Duke_of_Aquitaine" title="William III, Duke of Aquitaine">William III</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Aquitaine" title="Duchy of Aquitaine">Aquitaine</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/915" title="915">915</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_10" title="April 10">April 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Oda_of_Metz" title="Oda of Metz">Oda of Metz</a>, German <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">noblewoman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_16" title="April 16">April 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_I_of_Weimar" title="William I of Weimar">William I</a>, German nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_18" title="April 18">April 18</a> – <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Lekapenos" title="Stephen Lekapenos">Stephen Lekapenos</a>, Byzantine co-emperor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_16" title="August 16">August 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Marianos_Argyros" title="Marianos Argyros">Marianos Argyros</a>, Byzantine general</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Muhammad_al-Hasan_al-Muhallabi" title="Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Muhallabi">Abu Muhammad al-Hasan</a>, Buyid <a href="/wiki/Vizier" title="Vizier">vizier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alp-Tegin" title="Alp-Tegin">Alp-Tegin</a>, Samanid commander-in-chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donnchad_mac_Cellach%C3%A1in" title="Donnchad mac Cellacháin">Donnchad mac Cellacháin</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Munster" title="Munster">Munster</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fothad_I" title="Fothad I">Fothad I</a>, bishop of <a href="/wiki/Archdiocese_of_St_Andrews" title="Archdiocese of St Andrews">St. Andrews</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goltregoda_of_Cerdanya" title="Goltregoda of Cerdanya">Goltregoda</a>, Frankish countess and <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/920" title="920">920</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingeborg_Tryggvasdotter" title="Ingeborg Tryggvasdotter">Ingeborg Tryggvasdotter</a>, Viking noblewoman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_II_of_Gaeta" title="John II of Gaeta">John II</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Gaeta" title="Duchy of Gaeta">Gaeta</a> (<a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>) (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Maleinos" title="Michael Maleinos">Michael Maleinos</a>, Byzantine <a href="/wiki/Monk" title="Monk">monk</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ordo%C3%B1o_IV_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Ordoño IV of León">Ordoño IV</a> (<b>the Bad</b>), king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Kingdom of León">León</a> (or <a href="/wiki/962" title="962">962</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolfe_II,_Count_of_Ivois" title="Rudolfe II, Count of Ivois">Rudolfe II</a> (or <b>Raoul</b>), Frankish nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tryggve_Olafsson" title="Tryggve Olafsson">Tryggve Olafsson</a>, Norse <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Viking</a> king</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empress_Wang_(Taizu)" title="Empress Wang (Taizu)">Wang</a>, empress of the <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song Dynasty</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/942" title="942">942</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>964</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_14" title="May 14">May 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XII" title="Pope John XII">John XII</a>, pope of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_3" title="July 3">July 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Henry_I_(archbishop_of_Trier)" title="Henry I (archbishop of Trier)">Henry I</a>, Frankish <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a> and archbishop</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_5" title="November 5">November 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fan_Zhi" title="Fan Zhi">Fan Zhi</a>, chancellor of the Song Dynasty</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Queen_Zhou_the_Elder" title="Queen Zhou the Elder">Zhou</a> (<b>the Elder</b>), Chinese queen consort</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Hasan_ibn_Ali_al-Kalbi" title="Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi">Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi</a>, Fatimid nobleman and <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Anshi" title="Fujiwara no Anshi">Fujiwara no Anshi</a>, empress consort of <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/927" title="927">927</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_I,_Duke_of_Lower_Lorraine" title="Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine">Godfrey I</a>, count and vice-<a href="/wiki/Duke" title="Duke">duke</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lower_Lorraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower Lorraine">Lower Lorraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khosrov_of_Andzev" title="Khosrov of Andzev">Khosrov of Andzev</a>, Armenian monk and <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toichleach_ua_Gadhra" title="Toichleach ua Gadhra">Toichleach ua Gadhra</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Gailenga" title="Gailenga">Gailenga</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>965</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_22" title="February 22">February 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Otto,_Duke_of_Burgundy" title="Otto, Duke of Burgundy">Otto</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Burgundy" title="Burgundy">Burgundy</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/944" title="944">944</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pope_Leo_VIII" title="Pope Leo VIII">Leo VIII</a>, pope of the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Arnulf_I,_Count_of_Flanders" title="Arnulf I, Count of Flanders">Arnulf I</a>, count of <a href="/wiki/County_of_Flanders" title="County of Flanders">Flanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_20" title="May 20">May 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Gero" title="Gero">Gero</a> (<b>the Great</b>), Frankish <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_25" title="June 25">June 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Guy_of_Ivrea" title="Guy of Ivrea">Guy</a>, margrave of <a href="/wiki/March_of_Ivrea" title="March of Ivrea">Ivrea</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/940" title="940">940</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_4" title="July 4">July 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_V" title="Pope Benedict V">Benedict V</a>, pope of the Catholic Church</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_12" title="July 12">July 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Meng_Chang" title="Meng Chang">Meng Chang</a>, emperor of <a href="/wiki/Later_Shu" title="Later Shu">Later Shu</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/919" title="919">919</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_23" title="September 23">September 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Al-Mutanabbi" title="Al-Mutanabbi">Al-Mutanabbi</a>, Abbasid poet (b. <a href="/wiki/915" title="915">915</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_11" title="October 11">October 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bruno_the_Great" title="Bruno the Great">Bruno I</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Cologne" title="Archbishop of Cologne">archbishop of Cologne</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/925" title="925">925</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Husayn_ibn_Ali_al-Maghribi" title="Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi">Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi</a>, Abbasid statesman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guo_Chong" title="Guo Chong">Guo Chong</a>, Chinese general (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedwig_of_Saxony" title="Hedwig of Saxony">Hedwig of Saxony</a>, Frankish duchess and regent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Li_(Later_Shu)" title="Empress Dowager Li (Later Shu)">Li</a>, empress dowager of <a href="/wiki/Later_Shu" title="Later Shu">Later Shu</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ten_Kingdoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Ten Kingdoms">Ten Kingdoms</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Hao_(Later_Shu)" title="Li Hao (Later Shu)">Li Hao</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Chancellor of the Tang dynasty">chancellor</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moses_ben_Hanoch" title="Moses ben Hanoch">Moses ben Hanoch</a>, Jewish <a href="/wiki/Rabbi" title="Rabbi">rabbi</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bringas" title="Joseph Bringas">Joseph Bringas</a>, Byzantine <a href="/wiki/Eunuch" title="Eunuch">eunuch</a> and official</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wu_Cheng_(Wuyue)" title="Wu Cheng (Wuyue)">Wu Cheng</a>, Chinese chancellor (b. <a href="/wiki/893" title="893">893</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Empress_Zhong" title="Empress Zhong">Zhong</a>, empress consort of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Tang" title="Southern Tang">Southern Tang</a></li></ul> <p><b>966</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_19" title="January 19">January 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Asatada" title="Fujiwara no Asatada">Fujiwara no Asatada</a>, Japanese nobleman (b. <a href="/wiki/910" title="910">910</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ono_no_Michikaze" title="Ono no Michikaze">Ono no Michikaze</a>, Japanese <a href="/wiki/Calligraphy" title="Calligraphy">calligrapher</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/894" title="894">894</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_28" title="March 28">March 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/Flodoard" title="Flodoard">Flodoard</a>, Frankish <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">canon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chronicle" title="Chronicle">chronicler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Berengar_II_of_Italy" title="Berengar II of Italy">Berengar II</a>, margrave and king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy_(Holy_Roman_Empire)" title="Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_19" title="December 19">December 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sancho_I_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Sancho I of León">Sancho I</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Le%C3%B3n" title="Kingdom of León">León</a> (Spain)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ishaq_Ibrahim_of_Ghazna" title="Abu Ishaq Ibrahim of Ghazna">Abu Ishaq Ibrahim</a>, Samanid governor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu%27l-Hasan_Ali_ibn_al-Ikhshid" title="Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Ikhshid">Abu'l-Hasan Ali</a>, Ikhshidid governor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagrat_II_of_Tao" title="Bagrat II of Tao">Bagrat II</a>, prince of <a href="/wiki/Tao-Klarjeti" title="Tao-Klarjeti">Tao-Klarjeti</a> (<a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertha_of_Swabia" title="Bertha of Swabia">Bertha of Swabia</a>, Frankish queen consort</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cormac_ua_Cill%C3%ADn" title="Cormac ua Cillín">Cormac ua Cillín</a>, abbot of <a href="/wiki/Tuamgraney" title="Tuamgraney">Tuamgraney</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_VII_of_Jerusalem" title="John VII of Jerusalem">John VII</a>, patriarch of <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem" title="Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> (<a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vi%C5%9Ba%27_Sa%E1%B9%83bhava" title="Viśa' Saṃbhava">Viśa' Saṃbhava</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Khotan" title="Kingdom of Khotan">Khotan</a> (<a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nako_(Obotrite_prince)" title="Nako (Obotrite prince)">Nako</a>, Obotrite prince (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashiq_al-Nasimi" title="Rashiq al-Nasimi">Rashiq al-Nasimi</a>, Hamdanid governor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergius_I_of_Amalfi" title="Sergius I of Amalfi">Sergius I</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Amalfi" title="Duchy of Amalfi">Amalfi</a> (Italy)</li></ul> <p><b>967</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_9" title="February 9">February 9</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sayf_al-Dawla" title="Sayf al-Dawla">Sayf al-Dawla</a>, Hamdanid <a href="/wiki/Emir" title="Emir">emir</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/916" title="916">916</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_8" title="April 8">April 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mu%27izz_al-Dawla" title="Mu'izz al-Dawla">Mu'izz al-Dawla</a>, Buyid emir (b. <a href="/wiki/915" title="915">915</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_10" title="May 10">May 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Renaud_of_Roucy" title="Renaud of Roucy">Renaud of Roucy</a>, Viking <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_5" title="July 5">July 5</a> – <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Murakami" title="Emperor Murakami">Murakami</a>, emperor of <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/926" title="926">926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a> – <a href="/wiki/Wichmann_the_Younger" title="Wichmann the Younger">Wichmann II</a>, Frankish nobleman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_20" title="October 20">October 20</a> – <a href="/wiki/Li_Yixing" title="Li Yixing">Li Yixing</a>, Chinese governor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Faraj_al-Isfahani" title="Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani">Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani</a>, Umayyad historian (b. <a href="/wiki/897" title="897">897</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Ilyas" title="Muhammad ibn Ilyas">Abu 'Ali Muhammad ibn Ilyas</a>, Ilyasid emir</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleramo,_Marquess_of_Montferrat" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleramo, Marquess of Montferrat">Aleramo di Savona</a>, marquess of <a href="/wiki/Montferrat" title="Montferrat">Montferrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qabisi" title="Al-Qabisi">Al-Qabisi</a>, Hamdanid <a href="/wiki/Judicial_astrology" title="Judicial astrology">astrologer</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashot_III_of_Taron" title="Ashot III of Taron">Ashot III</a>, prince of <a href="/wiki/Taron_(historic_Armenia)" title="Taron (historic Armenia)">Taron</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boleslaus_I,_Duke_of_Bohemia" title="Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia">Boleslaus I</a> (<b>the Cruel</b>), duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Bohemia" title="Duchy of Bohemia">Bohemia</a> (or <a href="/wiki/972" title="972">972</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dub,_King_of_Scotland" title="Dub, King of Scotland">Dub mac Maíl Coluīm</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Alba" title="Alba">Alba</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland" title="Kingdom of Scotland">Scotland</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fergal_ua_Ruairc" title="Fergal ua Ruairc">Fergal ua Ruairc</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Connacht" title="Connacht">Connacht</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_II_of_Lusignan" title="Hugh II of Lusignan">Hugh II</a> (<b>the Kind</b>), lord of <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lusignan" title="House of Lusignan">Lusignan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishna_III" title="Krishna III">Krishna III</a>, ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Rashtrakuta_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Rashtrakuta dynasty">Rashtrakuta Dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Li_Cheng_(painter)" title="Li Cheng (painter)">Li Cheng</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Chinese_painting" title="Chinese painting">painter</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/919" title="919">919</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Vermandois" title="Robert of Vermandois">Robert of Vermandois</a>, Frankish nobleman (or <a href="/wiki/968" title="968">968</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vushmgir" title="Vushmgir">Vushmgir</a>, Ziyarid emir (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wahsudan_ibn_Muhammad" title="Wahsudan ibn Muhammad">Wahsudan ibn Muhammad</a>, Sallarid emir</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yan_Xu" title="Yan Xu">Yan Xu</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Chancellor of the Tang dynasty">chancellor</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/910" title="910">910</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>968</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/William_(archbishop_of_Mainz)" title="William (archbishop of Mainz)">William</a>, archbishop of <a href="/wiki/Elector_of_Mainz" title="Elector of Mainz">Mainz</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/929" title="929">929</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_14" title="March 14">March 14</a> – <a href="/wiki/Matilda_of_Ringelheim" title="Matilda of Ringelheim">Matilda of Ringelheim</a>, Frankish queen</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Emma_of_Paris,_Duchess_of_Normandy" title="Emma of Paris, Duchess of Normandy">Emma of Paris</a>, duchess of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Normandy" title="Duchy of Normandy">Normandy</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/943" title="943">943</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2" title="April 2">April 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Yuan_Dezhao" title="Yuan Dezhao">Yuan Dezhao</a>, Chinese <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Chancellor of the Tang dynasty">chancellor</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/891" title="891">891</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_4" title="April 4">April 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Abu_Firas_al-Hamdani" title="Abu Firas al-Hamdani">Abu Firas al-Hamdani</a>, Arab prince and <a href="/wiki/Arabic_poetry" title="Arabic poetry">poet</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/932" title="932">932</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Misk_Kafur" title="Abu al-Misk Kafur">Abu al-Misk Kafur</a>, Ikhshidid <a href="/wiki/Vizier" title="Vizier">vizier</a> of <a href="/wiki/Egypt_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="Egypt in the Middle Ages">Egypt</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/905" title="905">905</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aldred_of_Lindisfarne" class="mw-redirect" title="Aldred of Lindisfarne">Aldred</a>, bishop of <a href="/wiki/Lindisfarne" title="Lindisfarne">Lindisfarne</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Muttaqi" title="Al-Muttaqi">Al-Muttaqi</a>, Abbasid caliph (b. <a href="/wiki/908" title="908">908</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananias_I_of_Armenia" title="Ananias I of Armenia">Ananias I</a>, catholicos of the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardas_Phokas_the_Elder" title="Bardas Phokas the Elder">Bardas Phokas</a> (<b>the Elder</b>), Byzantine general</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadgifu_of_Kent" title="Eadgifu of Kent">Eadgifu</a>, wife of <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Elder" title="Edward the Elder">Edward the Elder</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_III_of_Naples" title="John III of Naples">John III</a>, duke of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Naples" title="Duchy of Naples">Naples</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landulf_III_of_Benevento" title="Landulf III of Benevento">Landulf III</a>, prince of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Benevento" title="Duchy of Benevento">Benevento</a> (or <a href="/wiki/969" title="969">969</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Jun_(Northern_Han)" title="Liu Jun (Northern Han)">Liu Jun</a>, emperor of <a href="/wiki/Northern_Han" title="Northern Han">Northern Han</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/926" title="926">926</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mord_Fiddle" title="Mord Fiddle">Mord Fiddle</a>, Icelandic farmer and <a href="/wiki/Gray_Goose_Laws" title="Gray Goose Laws">law</a> expert</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mumadona_Dias" title="Mumadona Dias">Mumadona Dias</a>, countess of <a href="/wiki/County_of_Portugal" title="County of Portugal">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendravarman_II" title="Rajendravarman II">Rajendravarman II</a>, ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Empire" title="Khmer Empire">Khmer Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Vermandois" title="Robert of Vermandois">Robert of Vermandois</a>, Frankish <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobleman</a> (or <a href="/wiki/967" title="967">967</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Guangxian" title="Sun Guangxian">Sun Guangxian</a>, Chinese chief strategist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunifred_II_of_Cerdanya" title="Sunifred II of Cerdanya">Sunifred II</a>, Frankish nobleman (b. <a href="/wiki/915" title="915">915</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>969</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_12" title="March 12">March 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Emperor_Muzong_of_Liao" title="Emperor Muzong of Liao">Mu Zong</a>, emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Liao_dynasty" title="Liao dynasty">Liao dynasty</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/931" title="931">931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_26" title="June 26">June 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/George_El_Mozahem" title="George El Mozahem">George El Mozahem</a>, Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Martyr" title="Martyr">martyr</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/940" title="940">940</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_11" title="July 11">July 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev" title="Olga of Kiev">Olga of Kiev</a>, princess and <a href="/wiki/Regent" title="Regent">regent</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27" title="Kievan Rus'">Russia</a> (b. c. <a href="/wiki/890" title="890">890</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_25" title="September 25">September 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/Burchard_of_Meissen" title="Burchard of Meissen">Burchard</a>, bishop of <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Dresden-Meissen" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen">Meissen</a> (approximate date)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Morotada" title="Fujiwara no Morotada">Fujiwara no Morotada</a>, Japanese statesman (b. <a href="/wiki/920" title="920">920</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Nikephoros_II_Phokas" title="Nikephoros II Phokas">Nikephoros II</a>, emperor of the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dou_Zhengu" title="Dou Zhengu">Dou Zhengu</a>, Chinese official and <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty" title="Chancellor of the Tang dynasty">chancellor of the Tang dynasty</a> (b. <a href="/wiki/892" title="892">892</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landulf_III_of_Benevento" title="Landulf III of Benevento">Landulf III</a>, prince of <a href="/wiki/Duchy_of_Benevento" title="Duchy of Benevento">Benevento</a> and <a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Capua" title="Principality of Capua">Capua</a> (or <a href="/wiki/968" title="968">968</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Kre%C5%A1imir_II_of_Croatia" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Krešimir II of Croatia">Michael Krešimir II</a>, king of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Croatia_(925%E2%80%931102)" title="Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)">Croatia</a> (<a href="/wiki/Trpimirovi%C4%87_dynasty" title="Trpimirović dynasty">House of Trpimir</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Dawla" title="Nasir al-Dawla">Nasir al-Dawla</a>, deposed Hamdanid emir of <a href="/wiki/Mosul" title="Mosul">Mosul</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=960s&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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