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Year 990 (CMXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Construction of the Al-Hakim Mosque begins in Cairo.

    • Europe

  • The city of Lund, Denmark (now Sweden) is founded.

    • Religion

  • The Pax Ecclesiae, an edict by the church in southern France, attempting to outlaw acts of war against non-combatants and the clergy, is promulgated.

    • Births

  • Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (approximate)
  • Edmund II of England, (approximate)
  • Mieszko II of Poland, king of Poland from 1025 to 1031, duke from 1032 to 1034
  • Yorimichi, regent to the Japanese emperor from 1017 to 1020 and from 1020 to 1068
  • Johannes Scotus, Bishop of Mecklenburg (approximate)
  • Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing
  • Fan Kuan, landscape painter

    • Deaths

  • Kaneie, regent to the Japanese emperor from 986 to 990
  • Al-Uqlidisi, Middle East mathematician
  • Dunash ben Labrat

    • References

    990 Wikipedia
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