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Europe

• Canual succeeds Talorgen as king of the Picts.
• The first three Viking ships land in Portland, in Dorset, in the Kingdom of Wessex, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the Norsemen plunder towns and coastal monasteries during the next two centuries.

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Religion

• The Second Council of Nicaea ends the first iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire.

Births

• Abu Mas'har, scholar

Deaths

• Arechis II of Benevento

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