Pechenegs besiege Kiev
While Sviatoslav fights on the Danube, Olga is besieged
In 968, while Prince Sviatoslav was campaigning in Bulgaria, the Pechenegs besieged Kiev, where Princess Olga and his sons remained. According to the chronicle, the commander Pretich passed off his troops as Sviatoslav's vanguard and the nomads drew back; the returning prince drove them into the steppe.
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Europe
- 955 Battle of Lechfeld — 13 years earlier
- 962 Coronation of Otto I — 6 years earlier
- 966 Baptism of Poland — 2 years earlier
Africa
- 969 Founding of Cairo — 1 year later
- 972 Al-Azhar Mosque opens — 4 years later
Asia
- 946 Millennium Eruption of Mount Paektu — 22 years earlier
- 960 Founding of the Song dynasty — 8 years earlier
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Alive at the time
- Vladimir the Great (aged 8)
- Otto the Great (aged 56)
- Olga of Kiev (aged 48)
- Ferdowsi (aged 28)
- Hugh Capet (aged 28)
- Æthelred the Unready (aged 2)
- Sviatoslav I (aged 26)
- Edgar the Peaceful (aged 25)
- Otto II (aged 13)
- Yaropolk I (aged 13)