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Pope Sylvester II, who helped introduce Arabic science and mathematics to the West and served as tutor to Otto II, dies. He had been elected to the pontificate after the death of Gregory V in 999; the man chosen to replace him, John XVII, reigns for only six months. Crescentius II succeeds in placing John XVIII, who rules until his abdication in 1009.
Norse settlements along the North American coast (Baffin Island and Labrador), established as early as 1000, are abandoned.
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