| Centuries: | 9th century - 10th century - 11th century |
| Decades: | 950s 960s 970s - 980s - 990s 1000s 1010s |
| Years: | 980 981 982 - 983 - 984 985 986 |
| 983 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 983 CMLXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1736 |
| Armenian calendar | 432 ԹՎ ՆԼԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -861 – -860 |
| Berber calendar | 1933 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1527 |
| Burmese calendar | 345 |
| Chinese calendar | 3619/3679-12-15 (壬午年十二月十五日) — to —
3620/3680-11-25(癸未年十一月廿五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 699 – 700 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 975 – 976 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4743 – 4744 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1038 – 1039 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 905 – 906 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4084 – 4085 |
| Holocene calendar | 10983 |
| Iranian calendar | 361 – 362 |
| Islamic calendar | 372 – 373 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3316 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1526 |
Events
By Place
Asia
- Wood carvers commissioned by China's Song Dynasty complete a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are produced). The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them Events and Trends Simple950s Zh-yue950年代 Events and Trends Khazar kingdom is attacked and defeated by Kievan Rus ( 965) Simple970s Zh-yue970年代 Events and Trends 983 — Pagan West Slavs revolt temporarily ending attempts at conversion and forcing abandonment of German sees and monasteries east Events and Trends Sei Shōnagon writes The Pillow Book. Simple990s Zh-yue990年代 This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Events By Place Europe Otto II renounces his claim to Lorraine. Events By Place Europe The great Viking explorer Eric the Red-haired leaves Norway to survey an island west of Iceland Events By Place Americas Greenland is discovered by Erik the Red (the first known European contact with North Events By Place Asia Emperor Kazan succeeds Emperor En'yū on the throne of Japan. Events By Place Europe Barcelona is sacked by Al-Mansur. Greenland is colonized by Icelandic Events By Place Europe March 2 — Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 982 state leaders - Events of 983 - 984 state leaders - State leaders by year ----- Africa Fatimid Caliphate The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used Calendar in the world today Ab Urbe condita (literally "from The Armenian calendar is the traditional calendar of Armenia. The Bahá'í calendar, also called the Badí‘ calendar, used by the Bahá'í Faith, is a Solar calendar with regular years of 365 days and Leap The Berber calendar is the annual Calendar used by Berber people in North Africa. The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland Southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar (formerly Burma The traditional Burmese calendar is a Lunisolar calendar based on both the phases of the moon and the motion of the sun The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a Lunar calendar with those of a Solar calendar. The Chinese sexagenary cycle ( is a cyclic numeral system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles the ten Heavenly Stems (天干 tiāngān The Chinese sexagenary cycle ( is a cyclic numeral system of 60 combinations of the two basic cycles the ten Heavenly Stems (天干 tiāngān The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and still used in Egypt The Ethiopian calendar ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዘመን አቆጣጠር ye'Ītyōṗṗyā zemen āḳoṭaṭer) also called the Ge'ez calendar, The Hebrew calendar (הלוח העברי ha'luach ha'ivri) or Jewish calendar is a Lunisolar calendar used by Jews for predominantly religious The Hindu calendar used in ancient times has undergone many changes in the process of regionalization and today there are several regional Indian Calendars, as The Indian national calendar (sometimes called Saka calendar) is the official civil calendar in use in India. Kali Yuga ( Devanāgarī: sa कलियुग lit "Age of Kali " "age of vice" is one of the four stages of development that the world goes The Iranian calendar or Solar Hejri (تقویم هجری شمسی؛ سالنمای هجری خورشیدی Taqwim Hejri Shamsi Salanmay Hejri Khurshidi) is an astronomical The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar ( Arabic: التقويم الهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī; Persian: تقویم هجری قمری Since January 1, 1873, Japan has used the Gregorian calendar, with local names for the months and mostly fixed holidays The traditional Korean calendar is a Lunisolar calendar which like the traditional calendars of other East Asian countries was based on the Chinese calendar The Thai solar calendar, Suriyakati (สุริยคติ has been the official and prevalent Calendar in Thailand since it was adopted by King China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National The Song Dynasty ( Wade-Giles: Sung Ch'ao was a ruling dynasty in China between 960&ndash1279 CE it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms The Tripiṭaka ( Sanskrit; Devanagari: त्रिपिटक lit
- The reign of Amir Adhad ad-Dowleh of Buwayhid ends. Aḍud al-Dawla ( Arabic: عضد الدولة) or Azod od-Dowleh Fana Khusraw ( ( September 24, 936, Isfahan - March The Buyids (آل بویه Āl-e Buye, Caspian: Bowyiyün also known as Buwaihids or Buyyids, were a Shī‘ah Iranian
- Sharaf ad-Dawla becomes Amir Buwayhid. Shirdil Abu'l-Fawaris (c 960 - September 7, 988 or September 6, 989) was the Buyid amir of Kerman and Fars
- The Khazar Empire ends.
- Emperor Shengzong leads a Liao Dynasty expeditionary force against the Zubu. Emperor Shengzong of Liao (971 - 1031 also known as Yelu Longxu (耶律隆绪 succeeded Emperor Jingzong as Emperor of the Liao Dynasty at the age of The Liao Dynasty ( 907 - 1125, also known as the Khitan Empire (契丹國 was an empire in northern China that ruled over the regions of Manchuria The Zubu (also referred to as Dada or Tatars were an ethnic group that are known to have existed in northeast Asia from the tenth to twelfth centuries
- One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1,000 volumes of 4. The Four Great Books of Song ( was compiled by Li Fang and others during the Song Dynasty ( 960 - 1279) The Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era ( is a massive encyclopedia compiled by a number of officers commissioned by the imperial court of the Song Dynasty with 7 million written Chinese characters. A Chinese character, also known as a Han character ( is a Logogram used in writing Chinese (hanzi Japanese (
Europe
- Otto III becomes King of Germany following the death of Otto II. Otto III (980 &ndash January 23, 1002) was the fourth ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire.
- Veronese donation during the diet of Verona. Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. Otto gifted the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz
By Topic
Religion
- December — Pope John XIV succeeds Pope Benedict VII as the 136th pope. The Rheingau (Rhine District is the hill country on the north side of the Rhine River between Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from The Archbishopric of Mainz (Erzbistum Mainz or Electorate of Mainz (Kurfürstentum Mainz or Kurmainz) was an influential ecclesiastic and secular Prince-bishopric Events in December Union Day of Romania (1 December World AIDS Day ( December 1) National Day of John XIV (died August 20, 984) was Pope from December 983 to August 20 984 successor to Pope Benedict VII (974&ndash983 He was Benedict VII (born in Rome, the son of David and previously Bishop of Sutri; died July 10, 983) belonged to the noble family History See also History of the Papacy Catholics recognize the Pope as a successor to Saint Peter, who Jesus named as the "shepherd" and
Births
Deaths
- Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 'Adud al-Daula
- Pope Benedict VII
- Mu'ayyad al-Daula
- Patriarch Anthony III of Constantinople
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