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985

# Barcelona sacked by Al-Mansur
# Greenland colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct)
# Lady Wulfruna founded the town that later became the city of Wolverhampton.

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984

Emperor Kazan ascends to the thorne in Japan.

Antipope Boniface VII murders Pope John XIV.

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983

First cathedral founded on site of current Worcester cathedral, UK, by Bishop Oswald.

Chhiao Wei-Yo invents Pound lock for canal in China.

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982

* Greenland discovered by Erik the Red; the first European contact with North America.
* Adalbert becomes Bishop of Prague.
* Kalbids defeat Otto II near Crotone.

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981

First commercially sold special soap for shaving. Sold for for 3 Dirhams (0.3 Dinars).

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980

# Development of Dari dialect during the royal courts of the Samanids in Central Asia which became the major language of Persia.
# Tula, Hidalgo becomes Toltec capital.

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979

The Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, is founded.
Ethelred succeeds his brother Edward as King of England

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978

# Badìa Fiorentina, an abbey in Florence, Italy, is founded by Willa, Margravine of Tuscany.
# Ethelred II becomes king of England at age 10, following the assassination of his half-brother King Edward the Martyr.

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977

German emperor Otto II grants Lower Lorraine, where modern-day Brussels is located, to Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, illegitimate son of King Louis IV of France.

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976

Leopold of Babenberg was appointed as Margrave of Austria. The Babenberg family was to rule Austria until 1246.