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Calendar year
The
Byzantines persecute the fleeing
Rus' .
Year 970 (
CMLXX ) was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar , the 970th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini designations, the 970th year of the
1st millennium , the 70th year of the
10th century , and the 1st year of the
970s decade.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
Emperor
John I delegates the war in the
Balkans to his brother-in-law, the
Domestic of the Schools
Bardas Skleros , and to the eunuch general
Peter Phokas , who begin to gather a
Byzantine army in
Thrace . At the news of this, a powerful Kievan expeditionary force (30,000 men), along with many
Bulgarians and a
Pecheneg contingent, is sent south over the
Balkan Mountains . After sacking the Bulgarian stronghold of
Philippolis (modern-day
Plovdiv ), they bypass the heavily defended city of
Adrianople , and turn towards
Constantinople .
[1]
Battle of Arcadiopolis : John I dispatches an elite force (10–12,000 men) to delay the
Kievan Rus' . The Byzantines under Bardas Skleros successfully
ambush the Kievan-Bulgarian invaders at
Arcadiopolis (modern
Turkey ). The battle turns into a complete rout, killing thousands. Grand Prince
Sviatoslav I is driven out of Thrace and withdraws his forces to the fortress city of
Silistra .
[2]
Summer –
Bardas Phokas (the Younger ) and his family rebel against their own cousin, John I. Bardas is proclaimed 'emperor' by his troops at
Caesarea , but the rebellion is extinguished by Bardas Skleros. Phokas and his relatives are captured and
exiled to the island of
Chios (
Aegean Sea ).
Europe
Africa
Asia
Births
Adelaide , German
abbess and saint (d.
1015 )
Al-Sharif al-Radi , Persian
Shi'ite scholar and
poet (d. 1015)
Bartholomew of Grottaferrata , Italian
abbot (d.
1055 )
Constantine III , king of
Scotland (approximate date)
Fulk III (the Black ), French
nobleman (d.
1040 )
Gerberga , German noblewoman (approximate date)
Hedwig , French noblewoman (approximate date)
Henry of Schweinfurt , German nobleman (d.
1017 )
Henry of Speyer , German nobleman (approximate date)
Heribert , archbishop of
Cologne (approximate date)
Leif Erikson , Norse
Viking explorer (approximate date)
Otto II , duke of
Lower Lorraine (approximate date)
Procopius of Sázava , Czech
hermit and abbot (d.
1053 )
Radim Gaudentius , Polish archbishop (approximate date)
Richard of Verdun , French abbot (d.
1046 )
Rudolph III , king of
Burgundy (approximate date)
Sergius IV , pope of the
Catholic Church (d.
1012 )
Sitt al-Mulk , Fatimid princess and
regent (d.
1023 )
Wifred II , Spanish nobleman (approximate date)
William III , French nobleman (approximate date)
Xu Daoning , Chinese painter (approximate date)
Deaths
January 18 –
Hatto II , archbishop of
Mainz
January 30 –
Peter I , emperor of
Bulgaria
February 5 –
Polyeuctus , patriarch of
Constantinople
February 22 –
García I , king of
Pamplona
June 15 –
Adalbert , bishop of
Passau
August 31 –
Han Xizai , Chinese official (b.
902 )
November 1 –
Boso , bishop of
Merseburg
Abu'l-Fadl ibn al-'Amid , Persian statesman
Al-Qassab , Abbasid warrior-scholar
Beinir Sigmundsson , Viking chieftain
Brestir Sigmundsson , Viking chieftain
Erenfried II , Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
Fernán González , Frankish count of
Castile
Fujiwara no Saneyori , Japanese statesman (b.
900 )
Harald II (Greycloak ), king of
Norway
Hasdai ibn Shaprut , Jewish diplomat (approximate date)
Menahem ben Saruq , Jewish
philologist (approximate date)
Minamoto no Saneakira , Japanese nobleman (b.
910 )
Oswulf , bishop of
Ramsbury (approximate date)
Taksony ,
Grand Prince of
Hungary (approximate date)
Willa of Tuscany , queen consort of
Italy
References
^ Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare 527–1071 , p. 86.
ISBN
978-1-84884-215-1 .
^ Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare 527–1071 , pp.86–87.
ISBN
978-1-84884-215-1 .