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EventsFujiwara no Yoshifusa becomes regent of Japan, starting the Fujiwara regentship.Alfonso III succeeds as king of Asturias.Louis II beats the Saracen invaders in Italy.Ivar the Boneless crosses over to England and beats and captures king Ella of Northumbria, thus revenging his father Ragnar Lodbrok.Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 865).Pope Nicholas I forbids the use of torture in prosecutions for witchcraft.A "great Viking army" captures York. Harold Fairhair (850-933) wins a decisive battle in his quest to become king of all of Norway Births September 19 - Emperor Leo VI of the Byzantine Empire (d. 912) Deaths April - Bardas, co-emperor and de facto ruler of the Byzantine Empire (murdered)27 May - Ordoņo I, king of Asturiasal-Kindi, Muslim philosopherEthelbert, king of Wessex and Bretwalda (or 865)
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