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trade972Updated on Sign in Covid-19Year 972 (CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Buluggin ibn Ziri is appointed viceroy in Ifriqiya, starting the Zirid Dynasty.
The city of Satu Mare, Romania is founded.
Otto II marries Theophanu, Byzantine princess.
Battle of Cedynia: Polish duke Mieszko I defeats the Germans.
Boleslaus II the Pious succeeds Boleslav I in Bohemia.
The monastery at the site of Peterborough Cathedral is rebuilt.
Emperor John Tzimisces makes eastern Bulgaria a Byzantine dependency.
A battle between Estonian and Icelandic Vikings in Saaremaa is described in Njál's saga.
Yaropolk of Kiev succeeds Sviatoslav I in Kiev.
Pope Benedict VI succeeds Pope John XIII as pope.
Saint Eadburga is canonized.
March 27 – King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
Al-Mawardi
Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (d. 1057)
Fujiwara no Yukinari
Fulk III of Anjou
Pope Gregory V
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Renauld I, Count of Nevers
September 6 – Pope John XIII
Boleslav I of Bohemia
Liutprand, bishop of Cremona and historian
Sviatoslav I, Prince of Kiev
Kuya, Japanese monk of Pure Land Buddhism (b. 903).
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