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Year 991 (CMXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Bakjur tries to capture Aleppo, but is defeated, captured and executed by the Hamdanid emir Sa'd al-Dawla, with Byzantine assistance.

    • Europe

  • March: Æthelred the Unready, King of the English, and Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, sign a treaty of friendship, stating that neither will harbour the other's enemies.
  • August 10 – Battle of Maldon: The Anglo-Saxons are defeated by Viking invaders, led by Olaf Tryggvason (later Olaf I of Norway).
  • Sweyn I of Denmark recovers his throne.

    • Births

  • Sigurd Hlodvirsson, Earl of Orkney
  • Abdullah Yousef, of Kuwait

    • Deaths

  • August 10 – Byrhtnoth, Ealdorman of Essex (killed at the Battle of Maldon)
  • Theophanu, empress, mother of Otto III (b. 956)
  • Emperor En'yū, emperor of Japan (b. 959)

    • References

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