970
This article is about the year 970. For the number, see 970 (number).
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
Decades: | 940s 950s 960s – 970s – 980s 990s 1000s |
Years: | 967 968 969 – 970 – 971 972 973 |
970 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 970 CMLXX |
Ab urbe condita | 1723 |
Armenian calendar | 419 ԹՎ ՆԺԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 5720 |
Bengali calendar | 377 |
Berber calendar | 1920 |
Buddhist calendar | 1514 |
Burmese calendar | 332 |
Byzantine calendar | 6478–6479 |
Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3666 or 3606 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3667 or 3607 |
Coptic calendar | 686–687 |
Discordian calendar | 2136 |
Ethiopian calendar | 962–963 |
Hebrew calendar | 4730–4731 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1026–1027 |
- Shaka Samvat | 892–893 |
- Kali Yuga | 4071–4072 |
Holocene calendar | 10970 |
Iranian calendar | 348–349 |
Islamic calendar | 359–360 |
Japanese calendar | Anna 3 / Tenroku 1 (天禄元年) |
Julian calendar | 970 CMLXX |
Korean calendar | 3303 |
Minguo calendar | 942 before ROC 民前942年 |
Seleucid era | 1281/1282 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1512–1513 |
Year 970 (CMLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
Europe
- A devastating decade-long famine begins in France.
- Oldest preserved document (by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) mentioning Leibnitz in Styria (Austria)
- Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from a massive barbarian invasion.
- Eric the Victorious becomes the first king of Sweden.
- Skagul Toste demands the English to pay the very first danegeld.
Africa
- Construction is completed on Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo (the world's oldest Islamic university).
Births
- Leif Ericson, Norse explorer
- Seyyed Razi, important Muslim scholar and writer
- Sitt al-Mulk
- Xu Daoning, Chinese artist (d. c. 1052) (approximate date).
Deaths
- 30 January – Peter I of Bulgaria
- Magyar leader, Taksány
- Ferdinand II of Castile
- Fujiwara no Saneyori
- García III of Pamplona
- Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz
- Menahem ben Saruq
- Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
- Taksony of Hungary
References
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