What is 994?
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2013}} {{Year nav|994}} {{Year in various calendars|994}} {{Year article header|994}} == Events == === By place === ==== 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 ==== * [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Battle of the Orontes]]: [[Fatimid]] victory over a [[Byzantine]] army led by [[Michael Bourtzes]] == Births == * [[November 7]] &ndash; [[Ibn Hazm]], Arab philosopher (d. [[1069]]) * [[Simeon (abbot)|Simeon]], first Norman abbot of [[Ely Cathedral|Ely Abbey]] * [[Ahmad Bayhaqi|Imam Bayhaqi]] Scholar of Islamic Faith == Deaths == * Margrave [[Leopold I of Austria (Babenberg)|Leopold I of Austria]] * [[Sigeric the Serious]] * John Weir the Great, King of the Nords == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:994}} [[Category:994| ]]