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900–1000Pacific [colonization]The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori people discover and begin the settlement of New Zealand.
988Spain, León [Reconquista of Spain (711–1492)]Abu 'Amir al-Mansur (Almanzor), the Umayyad regent of Córdoba, Spain, razes the Spanish city of León and makes its king a tributary to the caliphate of Córdoba.
988Byzantine Empire [wars]The rebel Byzantine general Bardas Phocas is defeated in the summer at Chrysopolis by loyal imperial forces assisted by an army of ‘Varangians’ (Russian Vikings) sent by Prince Vladimir of the Rus principality of Kiev. This is the origin of the Byzantine emperors' Varangian Guard.
2 February 988Kiev [political events]Prince Vladimir of the Rus principality of Kiev is baptized as a condition of a proposed marriage with Anna, the sister of the Byzantine emperor, Basil II. The marriage is a reward for Vladimir's help against the rebel Byzantine general Bardas Phocas.


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