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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
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