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This page relates to the year 991 Calendrier Julien.

Events

November 20th: Beginning of the reign of Al-Qadir, Abbasid Caliph ` of Baghdad (fine in 1031) under the supervision of the Buyides.
the Buyides found a “ Maison of Science ” to Baghdad.

March 26th: Taken Laon, captures Charles of Lorraine, last heir Carolingien. The Maundy Thursday, treason of the bishop Ascelin of Laon which delivers to Hugues Capet the keys of the city as well as the Arnoul applicant and his children.
June 15th: Beginning of the regency of Adelaide, grandmother of Othon III (fine in 998).
17 - June 18th: the royal Council of Saint-Basle of Verzy is marked by the opposition between the party of the bishop S and that of the monks. The council degrades and makes imprison the archbishop of Rheims Arnoul, and substitutes to him Gerbert d' Aurillac, with the great anger of the Pape Gregoire V.
August 10th: Following a raid of the Norwegian Olav Trygvesson in the mouth of the the Thames, the king Ethelred II of Wessex (Aethelred II) is crushed by the Danish with the Bataille of Maldon, in the Essex (commemorated in one of the most beautiful English poems old “ the battle of Maldon ”) and is constrained to pay a tribute of 10 000 pounds so that Olav withdraws its troops.

the annual tribute (Danegeld) paid by the Wessex with the Danish is established. The king Ethelred II would have poured in all with the Viking S 158 000 pounds of danegeld.

Raids Vikings on the ports of Plank and them mouths of the the Rhine.
Pietro II Orseolo becomes doge of Venice (fine in 1009). Venice establishes a protectorate on the coast of the Dalmatian islands.
the emperor Basile II Bulgaroctone enters in war against the Bulgarian ones.
Grimoard, abbot of Brantôme in Périgord is named bishop of Angouleme (or 995), but preserves its abbatiat.

Richer of Rheims begins the composition of its Histoires (finished in 995), historiographic independent source of the time.
the Dagome Iudex , a document which enumerates the possessions of Mieszko Ier of Poland, is written and entrusted to the pope Jean XV which places the territories Polish under pontifical protection.

June 15th: Théophano Skleraina, Empress, widow of the emperor Othon II of the Holy roman Empire.

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