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==== Europe ====
* King [[Rudolph of France|Rudolph I]] loses the support of [[Herbert II, Count of Vermandois|Herbert II]], count of [[Vermandois]], who controls the prison at [[Péronne, Somme|Péronne]] in which former King [[Charles the Simple|Charles III]] ('''the Simple''') is imprisoned. Herbert brings him before [[William I Longsword|William I]] ('''Longsword'''), count of [[Duchy of Normandy|Rouen]], for homage and then to [[Reims|Rheims]] as leverage to blackmail Rudolph to make him cede sovereignty over [[Laon]] (Northern [[France]]).
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Louis the Blind|Louis III]] ('''the Blind'''), former king of [[Provence]] ([[Lower Burgundy]]), dies at [[Arles]] after a 27-year reign (of which 23 are sightless). He is succeeded by his brother-in-law [[Hugh of Italy|Hugh I]] who is [[King of Italy]]. With the approval of his kinsman Rudolph I, Hugh strips Louis's son and heir, [[Charles Constantine of Vienne|Charles Constantine]], of his inheritance and proclaims himself as ruler of Provence.
* Winter &ndash; King [[Henry the Fowler|Henry I]] ('''the Fowler''')  subdues the [[Polabian Slavs]] who live on the eastern borders. He then marches against the Slavic [[Hevelli]] tribes and seizes their capital, [[Brandenburg an der Havel|Brandenburg]]. Henry invades the [[Glomacze]] lands in the middle [[Elbe]] valley, where he [[Siege|besieges]] and destroys the main castle called Gana (the later [[Albrechtsburg]]) at [[Meissen]] ([[Saxony]]).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barford|first=Paul M.|title=The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca|year=2001|page=421|isbn=0-8014-3977-9}}</ref>