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Europe

• Spring - A Hungarian army led by Bulcsú crosses the Rhine. He camps at Worms in the capital of his ally Conrad the Red, duke of Lorraine. Bulcsú heads west, attacking the domains of King Otto I, by crossing the rivers Moselle and Maas.
• April 6–10 - The Hungarians besiege Cambrai and burn its suburbs, but they are unable to conquer the city. One of Bulcsú's relatives is killed by the defenders, who refuse to pass his body over to the Hungarians. As a revenge, they kill all their captives.
• The Hungarians plunder the regions of Hesbaye and Carbonaria. They plunder and burn the monastery of Saint Lambert from Hainaut, the monastery of Moorsel, sack the cities of Gembloux and Tournai.
• Summer - The Hungarians plunder the surroundings of Laon, Reims, Chalon, Metz, and Gorze. After that, they return to Burgundy. In Provence, the Hungarians battle with the Moors from the Muslim enclave of Fraxinet.
• September 10 - King Louis IV dies after a hunting accident. He is succeeded by his 13-year-old son Lothair III under the guardianship of Hugh the Great, count of Paris.
• November 12 - Lothair III is crowned by Artald, archbishop of Reims, at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. His mother, Queen Gerberga of Saxony, appoints Hugh the Great as regent.
• Winter - At the Reichstag in Auerstedt assembled by Otto I, his son Liudolf and Conrad the Red submit to Otto's rule. They are stripped of their duchies, but several rebel nobles continue to resist.

  British Isles

• King Eric I is killed at Stainmore allowing King Eadred to recover York, reuniting Northumbria with that of All England. High-Reeve Osulf I of Bamburgh is appointed ealdorman of Northumbria.
• King Malcolm I is killed in battle against the Northmen after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded by Indulf, the son of the late King Constantine II, as ruler of Alba.

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Religion

• Duke Alberic II, princeps and ruler of Rome, dies after a 22-year reign. On his deathbed he nominates his son Octavianus as his successor.
• Seborga comes under the jurisdiction of the Benedictine monks of Santo Onorato of Lérins.