970

Events 

 A major volcano erupts in Mashu, Japan.
 A terrible famine begins in France.
 Eric the Victorious becomes the first king of Sweden.

 Births 

 Leif Ericson, Norse explorer
 Seyyed Razi, important Muslim scholar and writer
 Sitt al-Mulk
 Xu Daoning, Chinese artist

 Deaths 

 30 January – Peter I of Bulgaria
 Magyar leader, Taksány
 Ferdinand II of Castile
 Fujiwara no Saneyori
 García III of Pamplona
 Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz
 Menahem ben Saruq
 Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
 Taksony of Hungary