Person report

★17 Dec 0942
William Longsword of Normandy was ambushed and assassinated by supporters of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, while the two were at a peace conference to settle their differences.

★27 Jan 0945
Brothers Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos, having deposed their father as Byzantine emperor a few weeks earlier, were themselves overthrown by Constantine VII, their co-emperor.

★26 May 0946
King Edmund I of England was killed while attending St Augustine's Day Mass.

★24 Feb 0951
Liu Yun, founder of the last of northern China's Five Dynasties.

★04 Feb 0960
Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song dynasty that eventually lasted for more than three centuries.

★08 Nov 0960
Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo, Byzantine forces led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated their army.

★06 Mar 0961
With the completion of the Siege of Chandax, the Muslim Emirate of Crete was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.

★06 Dec 0963
Pope Leo VIII began his papacy as antipope of Rome.

★14 Apr 0966
Mieszko I, ruler of the Polans, converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.

★10 Jan 0976
After the death of his guardian John I Tzimiskes, Basil II acceded to the throne as effective ruler and senior emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

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