Harald Bluetooth's runestone at Jelling
The king after whom Bluetooth is named
Harald Bluetooth raised the stone for his parents and boasted on it that he had won Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian. A thousand years later engineers named a wireless standard after him for its 'uniting' role, and built its logo from the runes of his initials.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 966 Baptism of Poland — 1 year later
- 988 Christianization of Kievan Rus' — 23 years later
Africa
- 969 Founding of Cairo — 4 years later
- 972 Al-Azhar Mosque opens — 7 years later
Asia
- 946 Millennium Eruption of Mount Paektu — 19 years earlier
- 960 Founding of the Song dynasty — 5 years earlier
Americas
- c. 950–1250 Medieval Warm Period — 15 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Vladimir the Great (aged 5)
- Otto the Great (aged 53)
- Olga of Kiev (aged 45)
- Ferdowsi (aged 25)
- Hugh Capet (aged 25)
- Sviatoslav I (aged 23)
- Edgar the Peaceful (aged 22)
- Otto II (aged 10)
- Yaropolk I (aged 10)