967

Events

By Place

Europe

• The Bishopric of Merseburg is formed in Saxony, with Boso of Merseburg as its first bishop.
• Conchobar mac Tadg (Connor MacTeague) becomes King of Connacht.
• Pandulf Ironhead becomes duke of Spoleto.
• Otto II is crowned co-emperor by Pope John XIII.
• Olaf Tryggvason flees Norway with his mother, only to be attacked by Estonian Vikings.
• Dado becomes count of Pombia.
• The Khazar capital of Atil falls to the Kievan Rus (approximate date)

Asia

• Emperor Reizei ascends to the throne of Japan.
• The Cambodian temple of Banteay Srei is consecrated.
• Li Yixing becomes jiedushi of Dingnan.
• Amber, India is founded as a settlement.

Middle East

• \'Izz al-Daula becomes the Buyid emir of Iraq.
• Bisutun ascends to the Ziyarid throne.

Births

• Sigrid Storrada (the Haughty)
• Bolesław I, duke of Poland
• Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine
• Louis V, king of France
• Badi\' al-Zamān al-Hamadhāni, Arab author
• Walter von Speyer, German poet and bishop
• Abusaeid Abolkheir, Persian Sufi
• Khottiga Amoghavarsha, Rashtrakuta warrior
• Vahram Pahlavouni, prince of Bjni and Nik
• Bertha, princess of Burgundy

Deaths

• Abu al-Faraj Ali, scholar
• Abu \'Ali Muhammad, Ilyasid ruler
• Aleramo di Savona, marquess of Montferrat
• Bolesław I, prince of Bohemia
• Hugh II, lord of Lusignan
• Krishna III, Rashtrakuta ruler
• Mu\'izz al-Daula, first Buyid emir
• Murakami, emperor of Japan
• Vushmgir, ruler of the Ziyarids
• Wichmann the Younger, Saxon count
• Matilda of Ringelheim, Holy Roman Empress
• Leon III, king of Abkhazia
• Hubert, margrave of Tuscany
• Dub mac Maíl Coluim, king of Alba
• Li Cheng

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