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Bulgarian Saint John of Rila [Saint Ivan] performs the miracle of the two pies - uses two pies to feed the poor

Bulgarian Saint John of Rila [Saint Ivan] performs the miracle of the two pies - uses two pies to feed the poor

Bulgarian Saint John of Rila [Saint Ivan] performs the miracle of the two pies - uses two pies to feed the poor

Events Before

  1. Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya destroys Taormina, Sicily

    Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II ibn Ahmad (27 June 850 – 23 October 902) was the Emir of Ifriqiya. He ruled from 875 until his abdication in 902.

  2. Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher

    Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher

  3. Byzantine city Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli

    Byzantine city Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli

  4. Holy Roman Emperor Louis III captured, blinded, and forced to relinquish his royal Italian and imperial crowns

    Louis the Blind (880 – 5 June 928) was king in Provence and Lower Burgundy from 890 to 928, and also king of Italy from 900 to 905, and also the emperor between 901 and 905, styled as Louis III.

Events After

  1. The last major Viking army to raid England, led by King Edward and Earl Æthelred, is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhal

    The last major Viking army to raid England, led by King Edward and Earl Æthelred, is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex

  2. One of the last known Maya dated monuments, a stela from the city of Itzimte (modern Guatemala)

    Maya stelae (singular stela) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.

  3. Benedictine abbey of Cluny founded by William, Duke of Aquitaine, in Burgundy, France, one of the greatest monasteries o

    Benedictine abbey of Cluny founded by William, Duke of Aquitaine, in Burgundy, France, one of the greatest monasteries of Western Europe

  4. Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Viking leader Rollo of Normandy creates the

    Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Viking leader Rollo of Normandy creates the Duchy of Normandy

  5. Viking Prince of Kiev and founder of the Kievan Rus, Oleg the Wise, signs a treaty with the Byzantines

    Viking Prince of Kiev and founder of the Kievan Rus, Oleg the Wise, signs a treaty with the Byzantines

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