History
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General
Population: 248 Million*
- Deaths: Caliph of Cordoba Hakam II, Byzantine emperor John I Tzimisces
Europe
- Austria: Leopold I becomes margrave of Austria (House of Babenberg)
Start building St. Mark's in Venice
- Bulgaria: Samuel becomes Czar of Bulgaria
- England: Famine in England as noted by John of Brompton
- German States: Henry the Quarrelsome of Bavaria defeated and dethroned by Otto II – Bavaria loses Carinthia and Verona
- Spain: End of Hakam II as Caliph of Cordoba
Hisham the Caliph of Cordoba marks height of Arab science, art, and philosophy
Middle East
- Byzantine Empire: Death of John I Tzimisces
Reign of Basil II Bulgaroktonos (Bulgarian slayer)