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1007

EVENTS

Aethelred buys two years of peace with the Danes for 36,000 pounds of silver.

Songjiang County, the later city of Shanghai , is founded (approximate date).

Henry II of Germany founds the diocese of Bamberg .

BIRTHS

Isaac I Comnenus , Byzantine emperor (d. 1062 )

Gruoch , wife of King Macbeth (d. 1060 )

Ouyang Xiu , Chinese Historian , Essayist and Poet (d. 1072 )

DEATHS

Al Madshritti , mathematician