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Events 

 March 24 – The Battle of Pankalia

 Births 

 August 29 – Abu Taghlib, Emir of Mosul
 Estrid of the Obotrites, future wife of king Olof Skötkonung of Sweden
 Otto, Count of Vermandois

 Deaths 

 Iago ab Idwal, King of Gwynedd
 'Imran