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995| 900–1000 | Pacific [colonization] | The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori people discover and begin the settlement of New Zealand. | | c. 995 | England, Denmark [poetry] | ‘The Battle of Maldon’, an Old English poem by a now-unknown poet is written at about this time, dealing with a historically attested skirmish between Saxon forces and Danish raiders at Maldon in Essex, England, in 991. | | c. 995 | Norway [births and deaths] | Olaf II Haraldsson, Viking king 1015–30, and patron saint of Norway, who was the first to rule the entire country and who also introduced a religious code which became the country's first national legislation, born (–1030). | | 995 | Byzantine Empire, Bulgar Khanate [Byzantine reconquests (963–1025)] | The Byzantine emperor Basil II completes his first subjugation of the Bulgarians. |
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