963 Year 963 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar .Events By place March 15 - Emperor Romanos II dies at age 25, probably of poison administered by his wife, Empress Theophano . He is succeeded by his infant son Basil II . Theophano becomes regent and de facto ruler, she names her other son Constantine VIII as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. July 2 - Nikephoros II Phokas is proclaimed emperor by his troops in Caesarea . He sends a fleet to secure the Bosphorus Strait against his enemies. Chief minister Joseph Bringas gathers support and closes the gates of Constantinople . General Marianos Argyros is killed in a riot, forcing Bringas to flee. August 16 - Nikephoros II makes a triumphal entry in Constantinople and is hailed as 'the conqueror'. He is crowned emperor in Hagia Sophia . In September , he marries Theophano, bolstering his legitimacy. September 20 - Nikephoros II marries the former Byazantine consort Theophano, the widow of Emperor Romanos II.Europe Gero I , margrave of Merseburg , campaigns against the Slavs . He forces Prince Mieszko I of the Polans in Poland to pay tribute to Emperor Otto I . He expands his territory, the Marca Geronis , to the mouth of the Oder River . Sviatoslav I , Grand Prince of Kiev , begins a 2-year campaign in which he will defeat Khazar forces along the Don River – vanquish the Ossetes and the Circassians in the northern Caucasus . He also successfully attacks the Bulgars on the Volga River . November - Otto arrives at Rome , Pope John XII and Adalbert II flee to Campania , taking with them most of the Papal treasury. Otto is warmly received by the Roman citizens as 'liberator'. December - King Berengar II surrenders at the fortress of Montefeltro to German forces. He and his wife Willa are taken prisoner and dispatched to Bamberg . Luxembourg has her beginnings at Luxembourg Castle founded by Sigfried , count of the Ardennes .Asia The Chinese government of the Song Dynasty attempts to ban the practice of cremation ; despite this decree, the lower and middle classes continue to cremate their dead, until the government resolves the problem in the 12th century, by establishing public graveyards for paupers. The Nanping State , one of the Ten Kingdoms in south-central China , is forced to surrender, when invaded by armies of the Song Dynasty.By topic Religion Births March 13 - Anna Porphyrogenita , Grand Princess of Kiev Edith of Wilton , English princess and abbess Li Jiqian , Chinese governor and rebel leader Nuh II , emir of the Samanid Dynasty Samsam al-Dawla , Buyid emir Snorri Goði , Icelandic Viking chieftainDeaths March 15 - Romanos II, Byzantine emperor March 31 - Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad , Saffarid emir April 3 - William III, duke of Aquitaine April 10 - Oda of Metz , German noblewoman April 16 - William I , German nobleman April 18 - Stephen Lekapenos , Byzantine co-emperor August 16 - Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general Abu Muhammad al-Hasan , Buyid vizier Alp-Tegin , Samanid commander-in-chief Donnchad mac Cellacháin , king of Munster Fothad I , bishop of St. Andrews Goltregoda , Frankish countess and regent Ingeborg Tryggvasdotter , Viking noblewoman John II , duke of Gaeta Michael Maleinos , Byzantine monk Ordoño IV , king of León Rudolfe II , Frankish nobleman Tryggve Olafsson , Norse Viking king Wang , empress of the Song Dynasty
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