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Events 

 The city of Algiers is (re)founded by the Zirid king Buluggin ibn Ziri.
 Abu Yazid starts a rebellion against the Fatimids in the Aures Mountains.
 The Al-Askari Mosque is built in Samarra.
 King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings.
 Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos is deposed as Byzantine emperor.  It was by his own sons, Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos.

 Births 

 Otto, Duke of Burgundy
 Minamoto no Yorimitsu
 Fujiwara no Sukemasa
 Fujiwara no Akimitsu

 Deaths 

 Flaithbertach mac Inmainén, abbot of Inis Cathaig, Ireland
 Wilgred of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne
 Abu Mansur Al Maturidi, Muslim theologian
 Ngo Quyen, Vietnamese prefect and general
 Wichmann the Elder, Saxon nobleman
 Donnchad Donn, King of Ireland