937

By place

Europe

• A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southwards to Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Italy], pillaging the environs of Naples, Benevento and Monte Cassino. When the Hungarians return home, they are attacked in the Apennine Mountains by Lombard forces, losing their plunder.
• July 11 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy dies after a 25-year reign, and is succeeded by his 12-year-old son Conrad I. His wife, Queen Bertha, takes effective control of unified Burgundy, transferring its capital to Arles.
• King Otto I, [Holy Roman Emperor|Otto I] refuses to give land to his older half-brother Thankmar, who gains the support of Eberhard III and Wichmann the Elder, and seizes the fortress of Eresburg. Otto assumes direct rule over Franconia, and dissolves it into smaller counties.
• King Hugh of Arles travels to Colombier and marries Rudolph's widow Bertha. He takes Conrad I under his tutelage and betroths Rudolph's 6-year-old daughter Adelaide with his own son and co-ruler Lothair II.
• Winter - Gero succeeds his brother Siegfried after his death. King Otto I appoints him as count and margrave of a vast border region around Merseburg that abuts the Wends on the River Saale.
• Magdeburg becomes the capital of the East Frankish Kingdom, after a Diet held by King Otto I.

England

• Battle of Brunanburh: King Æthelstan defeats a combined Northern Army under the kings Olaf of Dublin, Constantine II of Scotland and Owain of Strathclyde. Though none of the British monarchs appear to have taken part, the people of Strathclyde were a major contingent under their Scottish king.

Asia

• November 10 - Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang Pu. The Wu State is replaced and Li becomes the first emperor of Southern Tang, one of the Ten Kingdoms in southern China.
• Winter - The Later Tang falls to the Later Jin founded by Emperor Shi Jingtang.