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AD 1002Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions
The Song shi basic annals record that in the third lunar month of Xianping 5 (AD 1002) Li Jiqian (李繼遷) captured Lingzhou (靈州), and its prefect Pei Ji (裴濟) died there.
Limits: The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The annals give no details of the siege or of the circumstances of Pei Ji's death.
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AD 1002Placed in a yearEuropePolitics and institutions
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Ingram/Giles translation) records under 1002 that the king gave an order to slay all the Danes that were in England, and that this was done on the mass-day of St. Brice.
Limits: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a monastic chronicle, used here through the 19th-century English translation of Ingram/Giles (Old English not checked); this records what the Chronicle says, not independent confirmation. The Chronicle does not state how many were killed or where; 'all the Danes' is the Chronicle's own wording.
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