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Chronological Table
970-1035 Sancho the Great, king of Xat arre. 972 Marriage of Otto II and Theophauo. Capture of Frainet (Fraxinetum). 973-98?* Otto y. Emperor of the M'est. 975-978 Reign of Edward the Martyr of England. 977 IVar of the three Henries. 978-1002 Almanzor, prime minister in Spain. 978-1016 Reign of .Aethelred the Unready. 980 Renewal of Scandinavian invasions of England. c. 980-1040 Peace of God. 982 Otto II defeated hy the Saracens. Revolt of the M'ends from Germany. 983 Otto II nominates a Lombard Pope (John XIV), the first to take a papal name. 991983-991 Regency of Theophano. 992983-1002 Otto HI, Emperor of the West. 985-996(8)
Crescentius H, patrician of Rome.
987-996 Hugh Capet, king of France, Vladimir of Russia becomes Christian. c. 989 1009 Peter Orseolo II, doge of X'enice. 1025 Boleslav (Boleslaw) Chrobry, duke of Poland. 994-1049 Odilo, abbot of Cluny. 996 Otto HI nominates a German Pope (Gregory ). 996-1037 Reign of Robert the Pious of France. 999 Otto III nominate.s a French Pope (Sylvester H). 1000 The Hungarians become Christian under St Stephen. Foundation of the archbishopric of Gnesen for Poland. 1000-1025 Burchard, bishop of M'orms, canonist. 1001 St Stephen crowned king of Hungary. Foundation of the archbishopric of Gran for Hungary. 1002 Death of the Emperor Otto HI (23 Jan.). Massacre of St Brice’s Day. Saracens defeated at Bari by the Venetians. 1002-1012 John Crescentius (HI), patrician of Rome. 1002-1014 Reign of Ardoin of H-rea in Italy. 1002-1024 Reign of Henry II, Emperor of the 'Vest. 1003 Death of Pope SyB-ester H (Gerbert). crowned king of the Lombards at Pavia. 1004 Henry
Richard, abbot of St Vannes. 1007 Establishment of the see of Bamberg. 1007-1029 Fulbert, bishop of Chartres. 1012 Murder of Archbishop Alphege (Aelfiieah). • 1012-1024 Benedict VIH (of Tusculum), Pope. 1012-1044 Counts of Tusculum supreme in Rome. 1013 Triumph of Svein in England. 1014 Death of Svein (Feb ).
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