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<catset>Category="961"</catset><right><p><table cellpadding=3 style="margin-left: 15px;"><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b>Years:</b></small><br><a href="957">957</a> <a href="958">958</a> <a href="959">959</a> <a href="960">960</a> - 961 - <a href="962">962</a> <a href="963">963</a> <a href="964">964</a> <a href="965">965</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b><a href="List of decades">Decades</a>:</b></small><br><a href="930s">930s</a> <a href="940s">940s</a> <a href="950s">950s</a> - <b><a href="960s">960s</a></b> - <a href="970s">970s</a> <a href="980s">980s</a> <a href="990s">990s</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center><small><b><a href="Centuries">Centuries</a>:</b></small><br><a href="9th century">9th century</a> - <b><a href="10th century">10th century</a></b> - <a href="11th century">11th century</a></td></tr></table><p></right><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Events</h2><ul> <li> <a href="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a> recaptures <a href="Crete">Crete</a> from Muslim control <li> <a href="Ani (Armenia)">Ani</a> made the capital of <a href="Armenia">Armenia</a> by the <a href="Bagrationi">Bagratid dynasty</a> <li> <a href="Haakon I of Norway">Haakon I of Norway</a> squashed the rebelling forces of <a href="Eric I of Norway">Eric Bloodaxe</a>'s sons but was killed in the <a href="Battle of Fitje">Battle of Fitje</a>. <li> <a href="Harald II of Norway">Harald II of Norway</a> becomes ruler of Western part of <a href="Norway">Norway</a> </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Births</h2><ul> <li><a href="Saint Edith of Wilton">Saint Edith of Wilton</a> <li><a href="Sigmundur Brestisson">Sigmundur Brestisson</a>, chieftain in the Faroe Islands. </ul><h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Deaths</h2><ul> <li>King <a href="Haakon I of Norway">Haakon I of Norway</a> <li><a href="Abd-ar-Rahman III">Abd-ar-Rahman III</a>, Caliph of Cordoba </ul>