994

Events 

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

 Middle East 
 September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: Fatimid victory over a Byzantine army led by Michael Bourtzes

 Births 
 November 7 – Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
 Simeon, first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey
 Imam Bayhaqi Scholar of Islamic Faith

 Deaths 
 Margrave Leopold I of Austria
 Sigeric the Serious
 John Weir the Great, King of the Nords

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