974

Calendar overview 974

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974
Construction of the Mönchengladbach Minster begins.	The Bavarian Duke Heinrich II rebels against Emperor Otto II.
974 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	422/423 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	966/967
Buddhist calendar	1517/18 (southern Buddhism); 1516/17 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	61st (62nd) cycle Year of the Wood Dog甲戌 ( at the beginning of the year water tap 癸酉)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	336/337 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	352/353
Islamic calendar	363/364 (turn of the year 19/20 September)
Jewish calendar	4734/35 (September 18-19)
Coptic calendar	690/691
Malayalam calendar	149/150
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MDCCXXVII (1727) Diocletian's era : 690/691 (turn of the year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1284/85 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1285/86 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1012
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1030/31 (turn of the year April)

Events

Spring: The Bavarian Duke Heinrich II., The brawler and his advisor, Bishop Abraham von Freising, conspire with the Dukes Mieszko I of Poland and Boleslav II of Bohemia against the Emperor. In response, Otto sends Bishop Poppo von Würzburg and invites him and all his followers to a court day under threat of excommunication. Although Heinrich submitted without a fight, he was imprisoned in Ingelheim , Bishop Abraham von Freising in Corvey .
Anti-imperial Roman patrician families under the leadership of the Crescentier set Pope Benedict VI, appointed by Otto I. and imprison him in the Castel Sant'Angelo . Subsequently, Crescentius de Theodora raised his partisan Franco under the name Boniface VII. To the antipope . He has Benedict strangled in July by the bribed priest Stephan and his brother. After only six weeks, however, Boniface VII had to flee to Byzantium before the approaching new Emperor Otto II , taking treasures from St. Peter's Church with him. At Otto's instigation, the Bishop of Sutri Benedict VII is elected as the new Pope . He excommunicated Boniface, who had fled. The Crescentians remain unmolested despite their betrayal.

Summer: The Danish king Harald Bluetooth falls into Nordalbingia one. Supported by Norwegian troops under Jarl Hakon , he penetrates south across the Danewerk . Otto's first counterattack fails in front of the Danewerk, which is tenaciously defended by Jarl Hakon and the Norwegians. It was not until autumn, when the Norwegians had sailed north again, that Otto made the breakthrough and launched an attack on Haithabu .

After the death of his father al-Mutīʿ li-ʾllāh , at-Tā'iʿ becomes the 24th Abbasid caliph under the Persian suzerainty of Adud ad-Daula from the Buyid family .

Antonios III. Studites becomes the new Patriarch of Constantinople .

After his return from Constantinople, Archbishop Gero of Cologne founds an abbey on the Gladbach hill and puts it under the protection of the Holy Spirit , the Mother of God, Mary, and the martyr Vitus . Construction of the Mönchengladbach Minster begins. The Trier monk Sandrad became the first abbot in what would later become Mönchengladbach .

March 8 : Lý Thái Tổ , ruler of the i Cồ Việt empire in what is now North Vietnam and founder of the Lý dynasty, founder of the capital Hanoi († 1028 )

around 974: Brun von Querfurt , German archbishop and missionary, apostle and martyr among the Prussians († 1009 )

March 7th : Johannes von Gorze , Lorraine monk, diplomat, land manager and monastery reformer (* around 900 )
April 25 : Ratherius , teacher, Abbot of Lobbes, Bishop of Verona and Bishop of Liège (* around 887 )
July: Benedict VI. , Pope

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