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==== Asia ====
* [['Adud al-Dawla]], emir (''[[king of kings]]'') of the [[Buyid dynasty|Buyid Dynasty]], concludes a 10-year [[peace treaty]] with the [[Byzantine Empire]]. He establishes what will soon become the most important [[Bimarestan|hospital]] of [[Baghdad]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts_Hospitals|url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_12.html|access-date=8 November 2011}}</ref>
* The [[India]]n [[Rashtrakuta Dynasty]] ends as its last ruler [[Indra IV]] commits ''[[Sallekhana]]'' (the [[Jainism|Jain]] religious practice of voluntarily starving oneself to death).

* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Liao dynasty|Chinese Emperor]] [[Emperor Jingzong of Liao|Jingzong]] dies in camp during a hunting trip after a 13-year reign. He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son, [[Emperor Shengzong of Liao|Shengzong]], as ruler of the [[Khitan people|Khitan]]-led [[Liao dynasty|Liao Dynasty]]. His mother, Empress Dowager [[Empress Xiao Yanyan|Xiao Yanyan]] becomes the [[regent]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Twitchett |first1=Denis C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iN9Tdfdap5MC |title=The Cambridge History of China: Volume 6, Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368 |last2=Franke |first2=Herbert |last3=Fairbank |first3=John King |date=1978 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-24331-5 |pages=87 |language=en}}</ref>