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Events
- November 13 - English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England, leading to the St. Brice's Day Massacre.
- Brian Boru rises to power in Ireland, taking the title of High King.
- All-out war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and Bulgarian tsar Samuil.
- Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.
- With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony in Greenland.
- Danegeld is paid.
Births
- June 21 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
- Mei Yaochen, poet of the Song dynasty (d. 1060)
Deaths
- January 23 - Otto III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 980)
- August 8 - Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba, Spain
- October 15 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
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