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==== Europe ====
* Spring &ndash; King [[Arnulf of Carinthia]] invades [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Italy]] at the head of an [[East Francia|East Frankish]] expeditionary army, joining up with the deposed king [[Berengar I of Italy|Berengar I]] at [[Verona]]. He conquers [[Brescia]] after little resistance, and sacks [[Bergamo]] after a one-month [[siege]]. The cities of [[Milan]] and [[Pavia]] open their doors to Arnulf. Emperor [[Guy III of Spoleto|Guy III]] escapes from Pavia, to hide in the mountains of [[Spoleto]] ([[Umbria]]).
* [[March]] &ndash; Arnulf of Carinthia proceeds to [[Piacenza]], and from there invades central Italy. After a successful campaign, he calls the invasion off and returns to Pavia – probably because Duke [[Rudolph I of Burgundy]] was threatening to invade [[Lorraine]]. Arnulf has himself proclaimed [[King of Italy]] at Pavia, leaving Berengar I as his [[Regent|vice-regent]] in Italy. 
* Arnulf of Carinthia returns to [[Germany]] through the [[Alps]], harried by militias dispatched by Rudolph I of Burgundy and margrave [[Anscar I of Ivrea]]. Only with much difficulty is Arnulf able to get his army through the [[Aosta Valley]] and through [[St. Moritz]], back into Germany. Guy III descends from the [[Apennine Mountains|Apennines]], and re-seizes the Italian kingdom.
* [[December]] &ndash; Guy III dies after a 4-year reign, and is succeeded by his 14-year-old son [[lambert of Italy|Lambert]], already associated as co-emperor since [[892]]. At the pleading of Archbishop [[Fulk (archbishop of Reims)|Fulk of Reims]], [[Pope Formosus]] reconciles with the young emperor. Lambert proceeds from Spoleto to Pavia, where he is acclaimed and crowned with the [[Iron Crown of Lombardy]].
* [[Svatopluk I of Moravia|Svatopluk I]], ruler (''[[knyaz]]'') of [[Great Moravia]], dies after a 34-year reign, in which he has united the [[Slavs|Slavic]] tribes in his kingdom. He is succeeded by his eldest son [[Mojmir II of Moravia|Mojmir II]]. The [[Principality of Nitra]] (modern-day [[Slovakia]]) is given as an [[appanage]] to his brother [[Svatopluk II]].
* [[Árpád]], head of the confederation of the [[Magyar tribes|Hungarian tribes]], comes to an agreement with the prince of the Moravians, Svatopluk II, that Hungarian and Moravian armies will together expel the [[East Francia|Eastern Franks]] from [[Pannonia]].<ref>Lajos Gubcsi (2011), ''Hungary in the Carpathian Basin'', p. 7. {{ISBN|978-963-327-515-3}}.</ref>
* Prince [[Petar of Serbia]] defeats his revolting cousin [[Bran Mutimirović|Bran]]; he is captured and blinded (according to a [[Political mutilation in Byzantine culture|Byzantine tradition that meant to disqualify a person from taking the throne]]).<ref>{{citation|last=Longworth|first=Philip|title=The making of Eastern Europe: from prehistory to postcommunism|edition=1997|year=1997|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|isbn=0-312-17445-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/makingofeasterne00long/page/321 321]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/makingofeasterne00long/page/321}}</ref>