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== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Bardas Phokas the Younger|Bardas Phokas]] ('''the Younger''') and [[Bardas Skleros]], two members of the military elite, begin a [[Rebellion of Bardas Phokas the Younger|wide-scale rebellion]] against Emperor [[Basil II]]. They overrun [[Anatolia]], and Phokas declares himself Emperor. Basil applies for military assistance from Prince [[Vladimir the Great]], ruler of [[Kievan Rus']], who agrees to help him and sends a [[Varangians|Varangian]] army (6,000 men).<ref>Raffaele D'Amato (2010). Osprey: MAA - 459: ''The Varangian Guard 988–1453'', p. 6. {{ISBN|978-1-84908-179-5}}.</ref>

==== Europe ====
* [[Almanzor|Al-Mansur]], the ''[[de facto]]'' ruler of [[Al-Andalus]], occupies the city of [[Coimbra]] (modern [[Portugal]]).<ref name=picard2000>{{cite book|last=Picard|first=Christophe|title=Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique|year=2000|publisher=Maisonneuve & Larose|location=Paris|isbn=2-7068-1398-9|page=109}}</ref>
* [[July 3]] &ndash; After the last Carolingian king of [[West Francia]], [[Louis V of France|Louis V]], had died in May, [[Hugh Capet]] is crowned king at [[Noyon]]. 
* [[December]] &ndash; The 15-year-old [[Robert II of France|Robert]] (the son of Hugh Capet) is crowned co-ruler of France around [[Christmas]] at [[Orléans]].<ref>Robert Fawtier, ''The Capetian Kings of France'', transl. Lionel Butler and R.J. Adam, (Macmillan, 1989), p.48.</ref>
* The population of [[Bari]] revolts against the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref name="occasion of the normans">{{cite journal|last=France|first=John|title=The occasion of the coming of the Normans to southern Italy|journal=Journal of Medieval History|year=1991|volume=17|issue=1|pages=183–203|doi=10.1016/0304-4181(91)90033-H}}</ref>

==== Africa ====
* The [[Zirid dynasty|Zirid Dynasty]] fails to reconquer the western part of the [[Maghreb]] ('''Land of Atlas'''), which they have recently lost to the [[Umayyad Caliphate]].<ref>Gilbert Meynier (2010). ''L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)''. Paris: La Découverte; p. 45.</ref>


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