In 973, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle records that, two years after his coronation at Bath, King Edgar of England, came to Chester where he held his court in a palace in a place now known as Edgar ’ s field near the old Dee bridge in Handbridge.

First reports of a castle on the location were made in 973.

In 973, Maccus mac Arailt, King of the Isles, Kenneth III, King of the Scots, and Máel Coluim I of Strathclyde formed a defensive alliance, but subsequently the Scandinavians defeated Gilledomman of the Isles and expelled him to Ireland.

However the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I ( 936 – 973 ) did not approve of the choice and had him deposed after only a month with his acquiescence.

When Otto II became Holy Roman Emperor in 973 ( he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967 ), he appointed Gerbert the abbot of the monastery of Bobbio and also appointed him as count of the district, but the abbey had been ruined by previous abbots, and Gerbert soon returned to Rheims.

The Gall-Gaidheal Kings of the Isles continued to act semi independently, in 973 forming a defensive pact with the Kings of Scotland and Strathclyde.

Following Otto I's death in 973, Mieszko I's sided with Duke Henry II of Bavaria against Emperor Otto II during Henry's failed revolt in 977.

On November 12, 973, Burchard III died with no heir: his union to Hadwing, sister of Henry II, had produced no children.

There are a total of 3, 973 km ( 2, 469 mi ) of railways: 2, 888 km ( 1, 795 mi ) is standard gauge, with 283 km ( 176 mi ) of that being electrified and 215 km ( 134 mi ) of that being double tracked.

As morning dawned on 4 July 973, Ulrich had ashes strewn on the ground in the shape of a cross ; the cross sprinkled with holy water, and he was placed upon it.

In January 1986, RFC 973 and RFC 974 deprecated the MD and MF records, replaced them with MX, and defined the MX lookup with fallback to A. RFC 974 recommends that clients do a WKS lookup on each MX host to see if it actually supports SMTP and discard the MX entry if it doesn't.

In 2000 there were 102, 973 households out of which 22. 70 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58. 10 % were married couples living together, 7. 20 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 30. 80 % were non-families.

It is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk and Omsk, with a population of 973, 891 ( 2010 Census preliminary results ).

Fudan University has a high-level research faculty of over 2, 400 full-time teachers and researchers, including 1, 350 professors and associate professors, 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, nearly 660 doctoral supervisors, 26 special professors and 2 lecture professors of " Cheungkong Scholars Program ", 3 distinguished professors and 10 special professors of Fudan University, 6 principal scientists of Project 973 and 25 " Young Experts with Prominent Contributions to the Country ".

There were 42, 973 households out of which 31. 70 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57. 10 % were married couples living together, 10. 30 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 28. 60 % were non-families.

There were 6, 973 households out of which 38. 90 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64. 40 % were married couples living together, 8. 20 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 23. 10 % were non-families.

After a period as bishop of Narni, he was elected Pope John XIII five months after the death of Pope Leo VIII as a compromise candidate with the agreement of Emperor Otto I ( 936 – 973 ).

The population was spread out with 914 people ( 19. 6 %) under the age of 18, 414 people ( 8. 9 %) aged 18 to 24, 1, 169 people ( 25. 0 %) aged 25 to 44, 1, 205 people ( 25. 8 %) aged 45 to 64, and 973 people ( 20. 8 %) who were 65 years of age or older.

There were 4, 782 households, out of which 2, 738 ( 57. 3 %) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 2, 973 ( 62. 2 %) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 719 ( 15. 0 %) had a female householder with no husband present, 379 ( 7. 9 %) had a male householder with no wife present.

The population was spread out with 368 people ( 15. 5 %) under the age of 18, 100 people ( 4. 2 %) aged 18 to 24, 458 people ( 19. 2 %) aged 25 to 44, 973 people ( 40. 9 %) aged 45 to 64, and 482 people ( 20. 2 %) who were 65 years of age or older.

There were 1, 973 households out of which 17. 9 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55. 1 % were married couples living together, 5. 4 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 37. 9 % were non-families.

The Census Bureau's 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that ( in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars ) median household income was $ 111, 390 ( with a margin of error of +/- $ 6, 160 ) and the median family income was $ 114, 973 (+/- $ 7, 378 ).

When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court.

When, after the death of Emperor Otto I in 973, a struggle for the supremacy in Germany began, both Dobrawa's husband and brother Boleslav II the Pious, Duke of Bohemia, supported the same candidate for the German throne, Duke Henry II of Bavaria.

In 973, twelve illustrious Magyar envoys, whom probably Géza had assigned, participated in the Diet held by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

# Otto I ( 912 – 973 )-Duke of Saxony, King of Germany, and Holy Roman Emperor

* 973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 912 )

After the death of Emperor Otto I in 973 Mieszko, like his brother-in-law, Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia, joined the German opposition in support of the attempted imperial succession of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria.

Emperor Otto I the Great was buried here beside his wife in 973.

* 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 973 )

* Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor and Duke of Saxony, died 973

Otto I died soon after Benedict's election in 973, and in 974 Benedict was imprisoned in the Castel Sant ' Angelo, at that time a stronghold of the Crescentii.

There Gerbert met Pope John XIII ( 965 – 972 ) and the Emperor Otto I, surnamed the Great ( 936 – 973 ).

The Pope persuaded Otto I to employ Gerbert as tutor for his young son, the future Emperor Otto II ( 973 – 983 ).

In 973, shortly before the death of emperor Otto I the Great, a Reichstag ( Imperial Convention ) was held at the imperial court in which Mieszko, duke of Poland, and Boleslav, duke of Bohemia, as well as numerous other nobles from as far away as Byzantium and Bulgaria, gathered to pay homage to the emperor.

* Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor ( lived 912 – 973, reigned 936 – 973 )

Otto I would in 973 establish the bishopric of Prague, subordinated to the archbishopric of Mainz, in order to Christianize the Czech territory.

He was succeeded by his son Géza in 972, who sent envoys to Emperor Otto I in 973.

Lambert I and Reginar IV returned to Lorraine in 973 to reclaim their land by force.

In 973, however, Otto I died.

In 973, the Cometopuli sent envoys to the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I in Quedlinburg in an attempt to secure the protection of their lands.

The present Principality of Reuss and the neighbouring tracts of land were inhabited in early medieval times by Slavic people who were converted to Christianity by the German Emperor Otto I ( 936 – 973 ).