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Europe

• Ashot I becomes the first king of Armenia's Bagratuni dynasty.
• Aed Finliath
  Aed Finliath
  Áed mac Neíll , called Áed Findliath to distinguish him from his paternal grandfather Áed Oirdnide, was king of Ailech and High King of Ireland...
  
   is crowned High King of Ireland.
• First written record of Murom
  Murom
  Murom is a historic city in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, which sprawls majestically along the left bank of Oka River, about 300 km east of Moscow. Population: 126,901 .- History :...
  
  , Russia
  Russia
  Russia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
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• Rurik
  Rurik
  Rurik, or Riurik , was a Varangian chieftain who gained control of Ladoga in 862, built the Holmgard settlement near Novgorod, and founded the Rurik Dynasty which ruled Kievan Rus and then Galicia-Volhynia until 14th and Muscovy until the 16th century.-Name:Riurik is the Slavic rendering of the...
  
   gains control of Novgorod.

Deaths

• July 2—St. Swithun, English bishop
• November 30—Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid
  Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid
  Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid was High King of Ireland. The Annals of Ulster use the Old Irish title rí hÉrenn uile, that is "king of all Ireland", when reporting his death, distinguishing Máel Sechnaill from the usual Kings of Tara who are only called High Kings of Ireland in late sources such...
  
  , King of Mide
  Kings of Mide
  In medieval Ireland, the Kings of Mide were of the Clann Cholmáin, a branch of the Uí Néill. Several were High Kings of Ireland. After the collapse of the kingdom in the 12th century its dynasty, the Ua Mael Sechlainn or Ó Melaghlin's, were forced west and settled on the east bank of the Shannon...
  
   and King of all Ireland
• Donald I of Scotland
  Donald I of Scotland
  Domnall mac Ailpín , anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin, and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I , was king of the Picts from 858 to 862...
  
  
• Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi
  Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi
  Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi,, was leader of the muwallad Banu Qasi clan and ruler of a semi-autonomous principality in the upper Ebro valley in northern Iberia in the 9th century.-Rise:...