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960| 900–1000 | Pacific [colonization] | The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori people discover and begin the settlement of New Zealand. | | c. 960 | Korea [political events] | The Koryo dynasty pushes the border of Koryo (Korea) north to the Yalu River, which remains the northern border of Koryo. | | 960 | Spain, León [political events] | Abd-ar-Rahman III, caliph (Islamic ruler) of Córdoba, Spain, exploiting the civil war in the Spanish kingdom of León, takes the city of Oviedo, and with García I of Navarre, restores Sancho I as king of León. | | 960 | China [political events] | A guard commander, Zhao Kuangyin (known posthumously as Taizu), overthrows the Later Zhou dynasty, the last of the ‘Five Dynasties’ of northern China, and founds the Northern Song dynasty. |
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