Power is captured by Tuzun and Nasir al-Dawla retires to Mosul. Death of the Samanid ruler Nasr II, accession of Nuh I. 944: al-Muttaqi is blinded and deposed, accession of al-Mustakfi. 945: Death of Tuzun. Shirzad becomes Amir al-Umara. Mu'izz al-Dawla captures power and establishes the Buwayhid dynasty in Iraq. Deposition of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustakfi, accession of al-Muti. 946: Death of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Qaim. Accession of Mansur. Death of the Ikhshidid ruler Muhammad bin Tughj, accession of Abu'l-Qasim Unujur ibn al-Ikhshid. Sayf al-Dawla establishes himself at Aleppo 949: Death of the Buwayhid shah of Fars, 'Imad al-Dawla. Accession of 'Adud al-Dawla. 951: The Qarmatians restore the Black Stone to the Kaaba. 954: Death of the Samanid ruler Nuh I, accession of 'Abd al-Malik I. 961: Death of the Samanid ruler 'Abd al-Malik I, accession of Mansur I. 961: Turkish mameluk Alptigin founds the rule of the Ghazanavids. 961: Death of the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Rahman III in Spain; accession of al-Hakam II. Death of the Ikhshidid ruler Unujur, accession of Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Ikhshid. 965: Death of the Qarmatian ruler Abu Mansur; accession of Hasan Azam. Assassination of the Ikhshidid ruler Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Ikhshid; power captured by Abu al-Misk Kafur. Fall of Tarsus to the Byzantines. 967: Death of the Buwayhid Sultan Mu'izz al-Dawla, accession of 'Izz al-Dawla. Death of the Hamdanid ruler Sayf al-Dawla. 968: Death of the Ikhshidid ruler Abu al-Misk Kafur; accession of Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali. 969: Byzantines occupy Antioch and force Aleppo to become a protectorate. The Fatimids conquer Egypt. 972: Buluggin ibn Ziri founds the rule of the Zirids in Algeria. 973: Shi'a–Sunni disturbances in Baghdad; power captured in Baghdad by the Turkish General Sabuktigin. 974: Abdication of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muti; accession of at-Ta'i. 975: Death of the Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz, accession of Al-Aziz Billah. 976: The Buwayhid Sultan 'Izz al-Dawla recaptures power with the help of his cousin 'Adud al-Dawla. Death of the Samanid ruler Mansur I, accession of Nuh II. In Spain death of the Umayyad Caliph al-Hakam II, accession of Hisham II. 977: Sabuktigin becomes the amir of Ghaznavids. 978: Death of the Buwayhid Sultan 'Izz al-Dawla, power captured by 'Adud al-Dawla who ruled former in Fars. The Hamdanids of Aleppo overthrown by the Buwayhids. 981: End of the Qarmatian rule at Bahrain. 982: Death of the Buwayhid Sultan Adud al-Dawla; accession of Samsam al-Dawla. 984: Death