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Events

By Place

Asia

* The Buwayhid Dynasty takes control of Baghdad (it does not supplant the local caliphate).
* The Min Kingdom is taken over by the Southern Tang Kingdom.
* According to Sun Tzu's Art of War, Yen-ch`ing and his colleague were surrounded by 'a vastly superior army of Khitans'.

Europe

* Edmund I of England conquers Strathclyde.
* Howell the Good convenes a conference at Whitland, which reforms the laws of Wales.
* Lothair II of Italy takes control of Italy (until 950).
* Romanos I is overthrown, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII reigns alone.
* Cumberland and Westmorland are annexed by the Scots.

By Topic

Religion

* Saint Dunstan becomes the abbot at Glastonbury.

Births

* Abbo of Fleury, French monk

Deaths

* Hamdani, Arab poet, grammarian, geographer, historian and astronomer
* Igor, Grand Prince of Kiev
* Ki no Tsurayuki, courtier of the Heian Period
* King Krešimir I of Croatia