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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* November 13 - English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England.\n* Brian Boru rises to power in Ireland, taking the title of High King.\n* All-out war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and Bulgarian tsar Samuil.\n* Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.\n* With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony on Greenland.\n* Danegeld is paid.

Births

\n*June 21 - Pope Leo IX

Deaths

\n*January 23 - Otto III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire\n*August 8 - Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba\n*October 15 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy\n*Boleslaus III, duke of Bohemia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n