Year 952 (CMLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Europe

• Summer At the Reichstag in Augsburg (assembled by King Otto I), joined by German nobles and bishops, Berengar of Ivrea pays homage. He becomes a vassal of the East Frankish Kingdom. Otto leaves a strong garrison at Pavia in the hands of his son-in-law Conrad the Red, duke of Lotharingia.

Scotland

• King Constantine II dies at the monastery of St. Andrews (where he has been retired since 943). His cousin and ruling monarch, Malcolm I, fights a battle against the Northmen or the Norse–Gaels.

Africa

• Summer Kalbid forces under Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi (an aristocratic member of the ruling Fatimid Caliphate) sail from Sicily and invade Byzantine Calabria. He attacks several towns, including Gerace and Cassono.

Births

• Adelaide of Aquitaine, French queen consort (or 945)

• Adela of Hamaland, Frankish countess and regent (d. 1021)

• Fakhr al-Dawla, emir of Gurgan and Tabaristan (d. 997)

• Sa'd al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir of Aleppo (d. 991)

• Song, Chinese empress consort (d. 995)

Deaths

• June 15 Murong Yanchao, Chinese general

• July 17 Wu Hanyue, Chinese noblewoman (b. 913)

• September 6 Suzaku, emperor of Japan (b. 923)

• September 10 Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (b. 885)

• December 17 Hugh the Black, duke of Burgundy

date unknown

• Alan II (Wrybeard), duke of Brittany

• Constantine II, king of Alba (Scotland)

• Li Jianxun, Chinese official and chancellor

• Mansur ibn Qara-Tegin, Samanid governor

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