973

This page relates to the year 973 Calendrier Julien.

Events

India

Beginning of the restoration of the Chalukya, in the Deccan, in India of the South (fine in 1190).
Uttama Chola, king Chola of Tanjore (fine in 985).

The Middle East

the caliph Fatimide Al-Mu' izz settles with the Cairo in Egypt.
Fatimides beat the Byzantine with Amida (Diyarbakır)

The Maghreb

the Berbère Sanhadja Bologhine ibn Ziri receives Fatimides the government of the Ifriqiya and founds the dynasty of the Zirides (fine in 1060) with Kairouan like capital.
Bologhine ibn Ziri carries out several forwardings against the enemy Berbères Zenata of the Sanhadja. It successfully fights the influence of the caliphate sunnite of Cordoue which tries to annex the septentrional Morocco.

Western Europe

January 19th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Benoit VI (fine in 974).
May 7th: Beginning of the reign of Othon II the Russet-red, Germanic Roman Emperor (fine in 983).
May: Crown with Bath Edgar the Pacific, king of the Anglo-Saxon by saint Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury.

Forwarding of the counts de Provence (Roubaud II and his/her brother Guillaume “the Liberator”) and of Turin against the Sarrasine base of the Guard-Freinet. Victoire of Provence with the Battle of Tourtour.

Harald with the blue Tooth would have carried out forwarding in Holstein and causes in reprisals an attack of Othon II which would have invested the Danevirke in 974.

Eastern Europe

Creation of évêché of Prague: foundation of the national Church of Bohemia.

Géza becomes duke of Hungary (fine in 997).

Beginning of the reign of Iaropolk Ier, large prince of Kiev (fine in 980). It sends an embassy in High-Saxony, near Otton I {{er}}.

Science & technology

the Arab scientist Al Kazim studies the vital phenomena by dissecting live animals.

Births in 973

September 15th: Al Biruni, erudite Persan encyclopedist (Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Historian, etc), writing inter alia in Arabic, close to Khiva (Ouzbékistan) († December 13rd 1048 with Ghazni in Afghanistan).
Countess Ermessende of Barcelona, also called Ermessende of Carcassonne or Venustissima (“Super Venus”) because of its great beauty, marries of the count Ramón Borrell but become widowed in 1017 († 1057).

Death in 973

May 7th: Otton Large the, Germanic Roman Emperor, at the time of the assembly of Quedlimbourg. He is then the most powerful sovereign of Europe.
Ibn Hani, poet ismaélien born in Spain in 934, panegyrist of the Caliph fatimide Al-Mu' izz.

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