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Events

Summer – Henry II (the Wrangler) is restored as duke of Bavaria by Empress Theophanu and her mother-in-law Adelaide at an Hoftag assembly in Rohr (Thuringia). King Otto III (5-years old) remains under the regency of the two empresses in the Holy Roman Empire and in the Kingdom of Italy.
Battle of FÃÂ½risvellir: King Eric the Victorious defeats a Swedish Viking army under StyrbjÃÂ¶rn the Strong (his nephew) near Uppsala.
July 6 – The city of Barcelona is sacked by Moorish troops under Al-Mansur, the de facto ruler of Al-Andalus (modern-day Spain).

Lady Wulfrun, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, is granted land by King ÃÂthelred II (the Unready). She founds Heantune that later becomes the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

Raja Raja Chola I (considered by many as the greatest emperor of the Chola Empire) becomes ruler of the Chola Dynasty. During his reign he expands his domains beyond South India.

Greenland is colonized by the Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (according to legend, but has been established as approximately correct Ã¢ÂÂ see History of Greenland).

July 20 – Anti-Pope Boniface VII dies under suspicious circumstances at Rome. He is succeeded by John XV as the 137th pope of the Catholic Church.
Amalfitan Benedictines found the only Latin Christian monastery on Mount Athos with the support of John the Iberian. The monastery will last until 1287.

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