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900–1000Pacific [colonization]The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori people discover and begin the settlement of New Zealand.
1 October 959England [political events]King Eadwig of England dies. He is succeeded by his brother, Edgar, who recalls Abbot Dunstan of Glastonbury from exile.
9 November 959Byzantine Empire [political theory]The Byzantine emperor Constantine VII (913–59) dies. As devoted to study as he was to politics, his many writings include De administrando imperio/On Imperial Administration, on foreign policy, and De cerimoniis aulae Byzantina/On the Ceremonies of the Byzantine Court, which describes the elaborate ceremonial of the Byzantine court.


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