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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.
BirthsJune 21 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
DeathsJanuary 23 - Otto III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 980)August 8 - Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad caliphate of CordobaOctober 15 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)Duke Boleslaus III of Bohemia
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