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Year 994 (CMXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty.
  • Otto III reaches his majority, and begins to rule Germany in his own right.
  • Aethelred II pays £16,000 of Danegeld to Olaf Trygvasson.

    • Middle East

  • September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: The Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army, led by Michael Bourtzes.

    • Astronomy

  • An increase in carbon-14 concentration, recorded in tree rings, suggests that a strong solar storm may have hit the Earth in either 993 or 994.

    • Births

  • November 7 – Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
  • Simeon, first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey
  • Imam Bayhaqi, eminent Islamic scholar

    • Deaths

  • Margrave Leopold I of Austria
  • Sigeric the Serious

    • In fiction

  • Disney's animated series Gargoyles took place in 994 throughout most of the first episode, as well as a few other episodes later.

    • References

    994 Wikipedia
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