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Asia

  • Wood carvers paid by China's Song Dynasty completed a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are made).
  • The reign of Amir Adhad ad-Dowleh of Buwayhid ended.
  • Sharaf ad-Dawla became Amir Buwayhid.
  • The Khazar Empire ended.
  • Emperor Shengzong of the Liao Dynasty led an expedition against the Zubu.
  • One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is finished in 1,000 volumes of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.

Europe

  • Otto III became the King of Germany after Otto II died.
  • Veronese donation during the diet of Verona. Otto gave the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz.

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  • Wulfnoth Cild
  • Odo II, Count of Blois

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