- Jan 15 One of the last known Maya dated monuments, a stela from the city of Itzimte (modern Guatemala)
- Aug 5 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred
- Sep 11 Benedictine abbey of Cluny founded by William, Duke of Aquitaine, in Burgundy, France, one of the greatest monasteries of Western Europe
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