994

Events

Europe

  • Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty.
  • Otto III reaches his majority and begins to rule Germany.
  • Aethelred II pays £16,000 of Danegeld to Olaf Trygvasson.

Middle East

Births

  • November 7 Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
  • Simeon, first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey
  • Imam Bayhaqi Scholar of Islamic Faith

Deaths

  • Margrave Leopold I of Austria
  • Sigeric the Serious
  • John Weir the Great, King of the Nords

References

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