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Year 977 (CMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • The original Imam Ali Mosque is built at Najaf, Iraq by the Buyid ruler 'Adud al-Dawla.
  • The Hamdanid emir Sa'd al-Dawla recovers his capital, Aleppo, from the ghulam Bakjur, who receives the governorship of Homs as compensation.

    • Europe

  • Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester, rebuilds the western end of the Old Minster, Winchester, with twin towers and no apses.
  • German emperor Otto II grants Lower Lorraine, where modern-day Brussels is located, to Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, illegitimate son of King Louis IV of France.
  • King Kenneth II of Scotland kills Amlaíb, brother of King Culen, to establish himself as Culen's successor.

    • Births

  • Kōkei, eminent Japanese Buddhist monk
  • Saint Poppo of Deinze

    • Deaths

  • Hunain ibn Ishaq, Egyptian physician
  • Doubravka of Bohemia, duchess, daughter of Duke Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia and wife of Mieszko I of Poland
  • Fujiwara no Kanemichi, a kugyo of the Heian period of Japan who served as Kampaku
  • Peter, Byzantine eunuch general

    • References

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