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## Asia

Gu Hongzhong, Chinese painter is born (will die in 975). Li Yu, ruler of Southern Tang, is born. Meng Xuanzhe, prince of Later Shu, is born (will die in 991). Liu Yanhao, general of Later Tang, dies. Xu Jingqian, official and regent of Wu, dies (was born in 919). Yang Meng, prince of Wu (Ten Kingdoms), dies. Yelü Bei, prince of the Liao Dynasty, dies (was born in 899). Zhao Dejun, general of Later Tang, dies.

David ibn Merwan, Jewish philosopher, dies.

Khalaf ibn Ahmad, Saffarid emir, is born (will die in 1009)

### January

#### 11th

Cao, empress of Later Tang, dies. Li Chongmei, prince of Later Tang, dies. Li Congke, emperor of Later Tang, dies (he was born in 885) Liu, empress of Later Tang, dies.

### November 10

Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced and Li (called "Xu Zhigao") becomes the first emperor of Southern Tang, one of the Ten Kingdoms in southern China.

### Winter

The Later Tang falls to the Later Jin (during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period) founded by Emperor Shi Jingtang (posthumously known as "Gaozu of Jin").

## Europe

A Hungarian army invades Burgundy and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southwards to Italy, pillaging the environs of Naples, Benevento and Monte Cassino. When the Hungarians return home, they are attacked in the Apennine Mountains by Lombard forces, losing their plunder. Ermengol, Frankish nobleman, dies (was born in 870).

Ælfwine, bishop of Lichfield, dies. Alphege, bishop of Wells, dies. Dubacan of Angus, Scottish nobleman, dies. Gebeachan, king of the Isles, dies (Hebrides). Tidhelm, bishop of Hereford, dies. **Battle of Brunanburh:** King Æthelstan defeats a combined Northern Army under the kings Olaf of Dublin, Constantine II of Scotland and Owain of Strathclyde. Though none of the British monarchs appear to have taken part, the people of Strathclyde were a major contingent under their Scottish king.

Attilanus, bishop of Zamora, is born (will die in 1007). Bagrat II, king of Iberia and Kartli, is born (will die in 994). David II, king of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia), dies.

Haakon Sigurdsson, Viking ruler, is born (will die in 995)

William IV, duke of Aquitaine, is born (will die in 994). Abbo, adviser and bishop of Soissons, dies.

Marozia, Roman noblewoman, dies (she was born in 890)

### July

#### 11th

King Rudolph II of Burgundy dies after a 25-year reign and is succeeded by his 12-year-old son Conrad I ("the Peaceful"). His wife, Queen Bertha, takes effective control of unified Burgundy, transferring its capital to Arles (that Burgundian kingdom was later known from the 12th century as the Kingdom of Arles).

King Otto I refuses to give land to his older (illegitimate) half-brother Thankmar, who gains the support of Eberhard III (duke of Franconia) and Wichmann the Elder and seizes the fortress of Eresburg. Otto assumes direct rule over Franconia and dissolves it into smaller counties.

King Hugh of Arles travels to Colombier (Switzerland) and marries Rudolph's widow Bertha. He takes Conrad I under his tutelage and betroths Rudolph's 6-year-old daughter Adelaide with his own son and co-ruler Lothair II.

### Winter

Gero succeeds his brother Siegfried after his death. King Otto I appoints him as count and margrave of a vast border region around Merseburg that abuts the Wends on the River Saale (Lower Saxony).

Magdeburg becomes the capital of the East Frankish Kingdom, after a Diet held by King Otto I.

## Other Symphonies

### The Symphony That Never Ends

Ba'al is slain in an ambush by Dominic, Gebbeleth, Kobal, and Belial, the result of a carefully arranged trap. Genubath, the angel of the Shield, is promoted to archangel and succeeds him as commander of the front-line troops.