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==== Religion ====
* Summer &ndash; Pope [[Pope Benedict VI|Benedict VI]] is imprisoned in the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] at [[Rome]], where he is strangled to death through the influence of the powerful [[Crescentii]] family. [[Crescentius the Elder|Crescentius I]] ('''the Elder'''), Italian [[politician]] and [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]], engineers an election and replaces Benedict with his own candidate Franco, who ascends under the title anti-Pope [[Antipope Boniface VII|Boniface VII]].<ref>Richard P. McBrien (2000). ''Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from St. Peter to Benedict XVI'', p. 186 (Harper Collins).</ref>
* Fall &ndash; Boniface VII is expelled by order of Otto II and flees to [[Constantinople]], taking the Church treasury of the [[St. Peter's Basilica|Vatican Basilica]] along with him.<ref>Collins, Roger (2009). ''Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy'', Basic Books.</ref> He is succeeded by [[Pope Benedict VII|Benedict VII]] as the 135th [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]].
* An [[abbey]] is founded at the site of [[Mönchengladbach]] (Germany).
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