Siege of Dorostolon
Sviatoslav holds out for three months, then leaves the Danube
Prince Sviatoslav, who had conquered Bulgaria, was besieged in Dorostolon by the army and fleet of Emperor John Tzimiskes. After three months of fighting he made peace and agreed to leave the Balkans. On the way home, at the Dnieper rapids, he was killed by the Pechenegs in 972.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 962 Coronation of Otto I — 9 years earlier
Africa
- 969 Founding of Cairo — 2 years earlier
- 972 Al-Azhar Mosque opens — 1 year later
Asia
- 946 Millennium Eruption of Mount Paektu — 25 years earlier
- 960 Founding of the Song dynasty — 11 years earlier
Americas
- c. 950–1250 Medieval Warm Period — 21 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Vladimir the Great (aged 11)
- Otto the Great (aged 59)
- Ferdowsi (aged 31)
- Hugh Capet (aged 31)
- Æthelred the Unready (aged 5)
- Leif Erikson (aged 1)
- Sviatoslav I (aged 29)
- Edgar the Peaceful (aged 28)
- Otto II (aged 16)
- Yaropolk I (aged 16)