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==== Exploration ====
* [[Erik the Red]] leaves [[Norway]], to survey west of [[Iceland]] in [[Vikings|Viking]] [[longship]]s, that carry nearly 700 people with cattle, horses, and other necessities for starting a [[Colonization|colony]] on the island. Erik finds land and calls it [[Greenland]].

==== Religion ====
* Spring &ndash; Pope [[Pope Benedict VII|Benedict VII]] dissolves the [[Slavs|Slavic]] [[bishopric of Merseburg]], after conferring with Otto II. He issues an [[encyclical]], forbidding the exaction of money for the conferral of any [[Holy orders|Holy Order]] (known as [[simony]]).

==== Commerce ====
* The first commercially made [[shaving soap]] sells for 3 [[dirham]]s (0.3 [[dinar]]s). {{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} 
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