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Events

By Place

Europe

* December - King Sweyn I leads a Danish invasion of England. King Ethelred flees to Normandy, and Sweyn becomes King of England.
* The Poles withdraw from Pomerania (approximate date).
* The Jews are expelled from the caliphate of Córdoba.
* German King Henry II conducts his second Italian military campaign.

Asia

* Estimation: Kaifeng, capital of China becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Córdoba in Al-Andalus. [http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm]
* The largest of the "Four Great Books of Song", the Song Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia "Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau" (which had been compiled since 1005), is completed in 1,000 volumes of 9.4 million written Chinese characters.

By Topic

Religion

* Lyfing is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
* Beauvais changes from a county to a bishopric (approximate date).
* The Al-Hakim Mosque is completed in Cairo.

Births

* Sancha of Leon, wife of Ferdinand I of Leon

Deaths

* Abu Al-Qasim, scholar of medicine
* Antipope John XVI