994

Europe

• Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty.
• Otto III reaches his majority and begins to rule Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
  
   in his own right.
• Aethelred II pays £16,000 of Danegeld
  Danegeld
  The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources; the term Danegeld did not appear until the early twelfth century...
  
   to Olaf Trygvasson.

Births

• November 7—Ibn Hazm
  Ibn Hazm
  Ibn Hazm – sometimes with al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī as well; 7 November 994–15 August 1064 456 AH) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher, litterateur, psychologist, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present-day Spain...
  
  , Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
• Simeon
  Simeon (abbot)
  Simeon was a relative of William I and the brother of Walkelin, through whose influence he was made prior of Winchester, then in 1082 Abbot of Ely, where he began work on the present building. He recovered for the monastery of Ely the lands which had been allotted to the Normans during their siege...
  
  , first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey
  Ely Cathedral
  Ely Cathedral is the principal church of the Diocese of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, and the seat of the Bishop of Ely...
  
  
• Imam Bayhaqi
  Ahmad Bayhaqi
  Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Husayn Ibn 'Alee Ibn Moosaa al-Khusrujirdee al-Bayhaqi, البيهقي also known as Imam Al-Bayhaqi was born 384AH in the small town of Khusraugird near Bayhaq in Khurasan...
  
   Eminent Scholar of Islamic Faith

Deaths

• Margrave Leopold I of Austria
• Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 990–994.It is unclear whether the epithet "The Serious" originated from his learning, or if it derived from transliteration of his name into Latin as Serio.- Biography :...
  
  
• John Weir the Great, King of the Nords