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Events

By Place

Europe

• Otto I the Great founds the missionary dioceses of Brandenburg, Havelburg, Ribe, Aarhus, and Schleswig.
• St Albans School in St Albans, England is founded.

Asia

• The Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of the most significant Hindu temples in the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka, is built.

Births

• Gang Gam-chan, medieval Korean government official and military commander (d. 1031)
• Emperor Jingzong of Liao

Deaths

• December 16 — Romanus I Lecapenus, Byzantine Emperor 920–944 (b. c. 870)
• Gao Conghui
• Gaozu of Later Han

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