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1015

Vladimir the Great dies at Kiev

July 15, 1015

The grand prince who had cast Perun's idol into the Dnieper and baptized his people in 988 died quarreling with his son Yaroslav. His death triggered a vicious war of succession that would make his son Svyatopolk the Accursed a byword for fratricide across Russian history forever after. Vladimir's choice of Byzantine Christianity over Islam and Latin rites shaped the cultural orientation of Russia for a millennium.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: July 29, 1014: Battle of Kleidion
After: April 23, 1016: Death of Ethelred the Unready

Before and after in Politics

Before: February 3, 1014: Death of Sweyn Forkbeard
After: April 23, 1016: Death of Ethelred the Unready

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Vladimir the Great