8 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (2)
Li Jixun, Military Governor of Zhaoyi, was ordered to campaign against Northern Han. (History of Song (Songshi), Annals 宋史卷002 開寶元年)
He Jijun, as vanguard, defeats the Northern Han army, beheads more than two thousand, captures the generals Zhang Huan and Shi Bin, then takes Fenhe bridge, reaches beneath the walls of Taiyuan, and sets fire to the Yanxia gate. (Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) 續資治通鑑 卷005 (968년 조))
Southeast Asia (1)
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh ascended the throne, named the state Đại Cồ Việt, and set the capital at Hoa Lư. (Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư 本紀卷之一 「戊辰元年。帝即位，建國號大瞿越，」)
West Asia (4)
Great earthquake at Claudiopolis: a strong tremor in summer brings down the city and its buildings, crushing residents and visitors to death. (Leo the Deacon, History IV.9)
Emperor Nikephoros makes a forced march to Antioch and camps before the city. Rather than assault it directly, he builds a fort on a hill so that its garrison sallies out daily (completed in IV.11, garrisoned by 500 cavalry and 1,000 infantry). (Leo the Deacon, History IV.10–11)
Nikephoros crosses the Lebanon range, besieges Tripoli, brings down its walls with siege engines and plunders for nine days. (Leo the Deacon, History IV.10)
On 22 December, at the fourth hour, the sun is obscured in a clear sky and the land goes dark; Leo writes that he was in Constantinople at the time. (Leo the Deacon, History IV.11)
Eastern Europe & Russia (1)
The freed Kyivans sent a messenger to Svyatoslav protesting that he was giving up his own land to seek another's (right after the Pecheneg siege). (Karamzin, History of the Russian State 제1권 VII장)