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This page relates to the year 966 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Beginning of the reign in India of Khottiga, king Rastrakuta of Malkhed (fine in 972).

14 or April 30th: Conversion of the prince Mieszko Ier of Poland and its people to the Christianity.

Marriage of the princess Dubravka (sister of the duke of Bohemia Boleslav Ier) and of Mieszko Ier of Poland which is made baptize on this occasion and thus takes the title of king of Poland .
the conversion of Mieszko to the Latin rite involves the penetration of Christianity and the contacts of the Poland with outside: Mieszko sends his/her son Lambert, the future Mieszko II, to study in an Italian cloister, Boleslav makes come to Poland from the Italian monks, beside the Germans. The matrimonial policy marks the evolution of mentalities: Boleslav marries successively two allemandes and Marie her daughters with a prince of Kiev and a prince of empire. The girl of Mieszko marries the king of Sweden, then of Norway, and becomes the mother of Knut Large the, king of the Denmark and England.

Beginning of the reign of Ramire III, king of León (fine in 984).
Forwarding of the emperor Othon I {{er}} in Italy.
Victoire of the emperor Othon I {{er}} on the Danes in the Jylland. Harald with the blue Tooth, king of the Denmark, takes refuge in the Limfjord and settles in the island of Bit. , It accepts the baptism. The Poppo bishop convinced it to convert himself with his army into proposing to him to subject itself to a kind of ordalie: he takes in his naked hand a block of red-hot iron and is not flaring.

the jarl Hákon, that Harald called for the aid, arrives in reinforcement in the island of Bit. Harald makes pressure for him so that he baptizes himself with his family, and he accepts. The king addresses priests to him so that they will announce the good news in all the country. But the jarl gets rid of the ecclesiastics, crosses the strait and turns over to paganism. Harald will remain faithful to Christianity.

Jelling, with the Denmark, royal and crowned site, is characterized by a double stone alignment laid out out of V ( stensœttning ) which frames the three principal monuments, both tumuli funerary of Tyra, marries of the king Gormr, and Harald to the tooth Bleue (this last remained empty) and of the current church, perhaps built on an old pagan sanctuary. Two imposing runic steles have summers raised, one by Gormr with the memory of Tyra, the other by Harald with the blue Tooth, which allots the merit to have unified and evangelized Denmark.

March 28th: Flodoard, historian, chronicler and French poet of Latin expression, author of a History of the church of Rheims and Annals. (° 894).
July 6th: Berenger II, king d' Italie, with Bamberg, in Germany, where he was prisoner of the emperor Othon Ier.

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