Religion

• The Pax Ecclesiae, an edict by the church in southern France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   attempting to outlaw acts of war against non-combatants and the clergy, is promulgated.

Births

• Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
  Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
  Conrad II was Holy Roman Emperor from 1027 until his death.The son of a mid-level nobleman in Franconia, Count Henry of Speyer and Adelaide of Alsace, he inherited the titles of count of Speyer and of Worms as an infant when Henry died at age twenty...
  
   (approximate)
• Edmund II of England, (approximate)
• Mieszko II of Poland, king of Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
   from 1025 to 1031, duke from 1032 to 1034
• Yorimichi, regent to the Japanese emperor from 1017 to 1020 and from 1020 to 1068
• Johannes Scotus, Bishop of Mecklenburg (approximate)
• Bi Sheng
  Bi Sheng
  Bì Shēng was the inventor of the first known movable type technology. Bi Sheng's system was made of Chinese porcelain and was invented between 1041 and 1048 in China.-Movable type printing:...
  
  , Song Dynasty
  Song Dynasty
  The Song Dynasty was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a...
  
   Chinese inventor of movable type
  Movable type
  Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document ....
  
   printing
  Printing
  Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
  
  
• Fan Kuan
  Fan Kuan
  Fan Kuan was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song Dynasty considered among the great masters of the tenth and eleventh centuries. Almost no biographical details survive about him. He modeled his early work after that of the artist Li Cheng , but later he concluded that nature was the only...
  
  , landscape painter

Deaths

• Kaneie, regent to the Japanese emperor from 986
  986
  Year 986 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* March 2 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks....
  
   to 990
• Al-Uqlidisi
  Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
  Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi was an Arab mathematician who was active in Damascus and Baghdad. As his surname indicates, he was a copyist of Euclid's works. He wrote the earliest surviving book on the positional use of the Arabic numerals, Kitab al-Fusul fi al-Hisab al-Hindi around 952...
  
  , Middle East mathematician
• Dunash ben Labrat
  Dunash ben Labrat
  Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat was a medieval Jewish commentator, poet, and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. He was, according to Moses ibn Ezra, born in Fes. In his youth he travelled to Bagdad to study with Saadia Gaon.Dunash is called the founder of Spanish Hebrew poetry...