958 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Kshemgupta, King of Kashmir dies and is succeeded by his young son Abhimanyu. Didda, widow of the former and mother of the later, becomes de facto ruler.

Births

• Basil II, later Eastern Roman Emperor, see Byzantine Emperors.
• Samuil of Bulgaria, later Tsar of Bulgaria.

Deaths

• Gorm the Old of Denmark, see List of Danish monarchs.
  
• Kshemgupta, king of Kashmir
• Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di - geographer, historian and physicist

Literature

• First literary reference to legendary Sherwood Forest, although no mention yet of Robin Hood, its most famous bandit denizen.