Byōdō-in Temple (located in Yamashiro Province) is built during the Heian Period on orders of Fujiwara no Michinaga, who uses the Buddhist temple as a countryside retreat villa (modern-day Kyoto Prefecture). By topic Religion Winter – Otto III makes a pilgrimage through middle Italy from Gargano to Benevento. Stopping by Monte Cassino, where he meets the hermit monk Romuald. Bishop Wulfsige III establishes a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne (Dorsetshire). Births Ibn Abi Hasina, Arab poet and panegyrist (d. 1065) Mas'ud I, sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire (d. 1040) Muhammad, sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire (d. 1041) Song Qi, Chinese statesman and historian (d. 1061) Zeng Gongliang, Chinese scholar and writer (d. 1078) Deaths July 15 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician (b. 940) July 19 – Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine governor (doux) August 8 – Seo Hui, Korean politician and diplomat (b. 942) August 19 – Fujiwara no Sukemasa, Japanese statesman (b. 944) August 24 – Sisinnius II, patriarch of Constantinople October 28 – Sigfried, count of the Ardennes (Luxembourg) Æthelweard, English ealdorman and historian (approximate date) Koppány (or Cupan), Hungarian nobleman (approximate date) Landulf of Carcano, Lombard chronicler and archbishop Nikon the Metanoeite, Byzantine monk and preacher Samsam al-Dawla, emir of the Buyid Dynasty (b. 963) Yelü Xiuge, general and politician of the Liao Dynasty References