961

This page relates to the year 961 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

  • Foundation of the clan Minamoto in Japan.

The Middle East

  • the king of Arménie Achod III installs its capital with Ani.
  • Beginning of the reign of Mansur Ier, emir samanide of Bukhara (fine in 976).

Europe

  • March 7th: Crystallized (currently Iraklion), capital of the Crete and centers piracy sarrasine, is reconquered by the Byzantines after 136 years of Moslem occupation. Crete will remain Byzantine until in 1204.

    • the cappadocian Nicéphore Phocas takes again the Crete and Cyprus (961 - 964) with the Arab that it continues until in Cilicie. End of Moslem piracy in Crete.
  • October 15th: Beginning of the Spanish Caliphate of Al-Hakam II, wire of Abd Al-Rahman III (fine in 976).

  • the town of Evreux is taken by the army of the king Lothaire III with at its head Thibaud the Cheater.

  • Guillaume III Taillefer becomes count de Toulouse (fine in 1037)
  • Révolte of Bérenger II, vice king of the Lombards, against Othon I {{er}}. Berenger loses his throne and dies in prison.
  • the pope Jean XII, which seeks to be released from the Roman lords, calls Othon which enters Rome.
  • Haakon Ier the Good, first king of Norway to be baptized (but become again pagan thereafter) is overcome and killed with Fitjar by the partisans of Erik Bloodaxe (Eric in Hâche Sanglante). Its nephew Haraldr Gráfeldr (with the gray coat) succeeds to him (fine in 970). Harald Blaatand (or Harald with the Blue Tooth) of Denmark reigns some time on the south of the Norway.
  • pagan Reaction to Kiev carried out by the aristocracy Varègue grouped around the prince Sviatoslav, wire of Olga Prekrasa. This one yields the capacity to him.
  • Failure of the mission of Adalbert of Prague to Kiev.

Art & culture

  • Début of the construction of the pagodas of the Buddhist temple Ruiguang if, with Suzhou (Jiangsu) in China (fine in 984).
  • Temple-mountain with gallery of Pre Rup with Angkor.

  • Al-Hakam II joins together a library of more than 400.000 volumes. It sends its agents in the world in the search of rare works.

  • Enlargings of the Mosque of Cordoue (arc multifoil intersected, nervées cupolas inspired of the Persian ).
  • Book of the miracles of Holy Foy and statue of Conches.
  • the Persan poet Daqiqi begins the drafting of a poem epic starting from recent compilations of the national tradition.

Births in 961

Death in 961

Map-bms: 961

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