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Year 937 (CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • The Wu State is taken from within by Li Bian, who then founds the Southern Tang Kingdom.

    • Europe

  • Battle of Brunanburh: King Athelstan of England defeats the Viking king of Dublin, the Scotland, and Strathclyde.
  • The Hungarian army battles with a French army led by Ebbo of Chateauroux, who dies after the battle. After that the Hungarians reach the Atlantic Ocean and turn towards Burgundy, where they burn the city of Tournus, than go to southern Italy, pillaging the environs of Naples, Benevento, Sarno, Monte Cassino. When they return home, they are attacked in the Abruzzo Mountains, losing their plunders.
  • September 21 – Magdeburg is now the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, after a Diet held by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

    • Births

  • Duke William IV of Aquitaine (d. 995)
  • Gu Hongzhong

    • Deaths

  • July 11 – King Rudolph II of Burgundy
  • July 14 – Duke Arnulf I of Bavaria
  • Marozia, politically active Roman noblewoman (b. 890)
  • Gebeachan, Gaelic "king of the islands"

    • References

    937 Wikipedia
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