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Events 

 The Chavda Kingdom is overthrown in Gujarat, India.
 October 30 – Pope Marinus II succeeds Pope Stephen VIII as the 128th pope.

 Births 

 Pampa, Kannada poet in India
 Genshin, Tendai scholar

 Deaths 

 King Idwal Foel of Gwynedd
 December 17 – William I of Normandy
 Gaozu of Later Jin, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty in China
 Liu Yan of the Southern Han Kingdom