986
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Events

By Place

Europe

• March 2 — Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
• Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark
• Håkon Sigurdsson of Norway defeats the Danish invasion force at Hjørungavåg

Asia

• Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
• The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but are defeated on all fronts.
• One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopdia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1,000 volumes representing the work of some 2,200 authors.

Americas

• Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America.

Births

• Athelstan Aetheling, son of Ethelred the Unready, (d. 1011)

Deaths

• March 2 — Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
• May 25 — 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Muslim astronomer
• November 1 — Harold I of Denmark
• Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd
• Yang Ye, Chinese general of Song Dynasty