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Events

By Place

Europe

* March 2 — Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
* Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark
* Håkon Sigurdsson of Norway defeats the Danish invasion force at Hjørungavåg

Asia

* Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
* The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but are defeated on all fronts.
* One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopdia "Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature" is finished in this year, with a total of 1,000 volumes representing the work of some 2,200 authors.

Americas

* Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America.

Births

* Athelstan Aetheling, son of Ethelred the Unready, (d. 1011)

Deaths

* March 2 — Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
* May 25 — 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Muslim astronomer
* November 1 — Harold I of Denmark
* Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd
* Yang Ye, Chinese general of Song Dynasty