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Events

The Nile river in Egypt freezes over.^[1]
Egyptian military commander Zar’ah ibn Isa ibn Nasturus appointed Vizier of Egypt.

Emperor Lý Thái Tổ of the Lý dynasty moved the capital from Hoa Lư to Thăng Long (modern-day Hanoi).^[2]
Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao dynasty, and the burning of the Korean capital Gaegyeong.
Song Zhun of Song dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village (the atlas took 39 years to complete).
In the Chola dynasty of southern India, the first votes are celebrated by adding a ballot in an urn.

January – Fujiwara no Kenshi (daughter of Michinaga) is married to the imperial heir Crown Prince Okisada.
February 14 – On the death of Fujiwara no Korechika his daughter, the poet Fujiwara no Chikako, becomes a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi.
Emperor Ichijō wants to retire – the influential statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga supports Crown Prince Okisada (now his son-in-law), who will be the successor, but the emperor prefers his eldest son by the late Empress Teishi, Prince Atsuyasu, who has been raised by Empress Shōshi, who also supports her stepson, leading to conflict at court.

Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).

June 2 – Fitna of al-Andalus – Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr: The Caliphate of Córdoba is defeated. Allied to Muslim rebels, Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona sacks Córdoba,^[3] and Hisham II the Nephast is restored as Umayyad caliph of Córdoba, succeeding Muhammad II al-Mahdi.
The Russian city of Yaroslavl is founded, as an outpost of the principality of Rostov Veliky.
The fortified city of Fiesole in Italy is captured and destroyed by the people of nearby Florence.^[4]
Swedish king Olof Skötkonung gives city rights to Sigtuna.^[5]

The construction of 217 ft (66 m) tall Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur (a city now in Tamil Nadu, India) is completed during the Chola dynasty, and at about this time the wall painting Rajaraja I and His Teacher

March 8 – Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), which will be regarded as the national epic of the greater Iranian culture.
Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese (approximate date).
Beowulf is written anonymously in Old English (approximate date).

Eilmer of Malmesbury in England attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.

^ Lamb 2012.
^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 80.
^ Boissonade 1934.
^ Bokody, Péter (2022). “Images of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi*”. Renaissance Studies. 36 (4): 573. doi:10.1111/rest.12768. ISSN 0269-1213.
^ Barbara Højlund & Frederik Schildt Nabe-Nielsen. “Sigtuna in Sweden”. vikingeskibsmuseet.dk. Retrieved August 20, 2025.

Lamb, H. H. (2012) [1977]. Climate: Present, Past and Future: Climatic History and the Future. Vol. 2. London: Methuen and Co. / Routledge. ISBN 978-0415682237.

Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993). Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, Basic Annals (PDF) (in Vietnamese). Vol. II, Kỷ nhà Lý: Thái Tổ Hoàng Đế (Nội các quan bản ed.). Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House. Retrieved June 20, 2025.

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