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*957 [[Olga of Kiev]] baptized in Constantinople.
*960 Emperor [[Nicephorus II Phocas]] re-captures [[w:Crete|Crete]] for the Byzantines.
*961 Founding of [[w:Agia Monastery of Holy Lavra(Kalavryta, Greece)|Agia Lavra]] monastery in Kalavryta, Peloponesse, (the symbolic birth-place of modern Greece in 1821).
*963 [[Athanasius of Athos]] establishes first major monastery on [[Mount Athos]], the [[Great Lavra (Athos)|Great Lavra]]; founding of Philosophou Monastery in [[Metropolis of Gortyna and Megalopolis|Dimitsana]] (Peloponesse); death of [[w:Michael Maleinos|Michael Maleinos]], a Byzantine monk who commanded great respect among Christians of Asia Minor, and was later adopted as a patron saint of [[w:Michael of Russia|Mikhail Feodorovich]], the first Romanov tsar.
*ca.963-1018 The [[w:Chronicle of Monemvasia|Chronicle of Monemvasia]] is composed, narrating the events that depict the [[w:Eurasian Avars|Avaro]]-[[w:South Slavs|Slavic]] conquest and colonization of mainland Greece, covering a period from 587 to 805 AD.
