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Events

• November 13 - English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England.
• 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 on Greenland.
• Danegeld is paid.

Births

• June 21 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)

Deaths

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

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