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Events

Barcelona sacked by Al-Mansur

Greenland colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland)

Lady Wulfruna founded the town that later became the city of Wolverhampton

Births

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, later sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt.

Deaths

Pope Boniface VII

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