Hugh Capet becomes King of France
Nobles pick a dynasty that will rule France for centuries
After the last Carolingian king of France died, the nobles elected Hugh Capet king. The Capetian dynasty he founded, with its Valois and Bourbon branches, ruled France almost until the 19th century.
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Rus was baptised in 988, a year after Hugh Capet became King of France. His descendants would rule France for more than 800 years.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 966 Baptism of Poland — 21 years earlier
- 988 Christianization of Kievan Rus' — 1 year later
Africa
- 969 Founding of Cairo — 18 years earlier
- 972 Al-Azhar Mosque opens — 15 years earlier
- c. 1000 Extinction of the elephant birds — 13 years later
- 1006 Supernova SN 1006 — 19 years later
Asia
- c. 1010 The Tale of Genji — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Vladimir the Great (aged 27)
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (aged 7)
- Ferdowsi (aged 47)
- Hugh Capet (aged 47)
- Æthelred the Unready (aged 21)
- Leif Erikson (aged 17)
- Murasaki Shikibu (aged 14)
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 9)
- Sei Shōnagon (aged 21)
- Robert II the Pious (aged 15)