976

Calendar overview 976

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976
Basil II becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire .
976 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	424/425 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	968/969
Buddhist calendar	1519/20 (southern Buddhism); 1518/19 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	61st (62nd) cycle Year of the Fire Rat丙子 ( at the beginning of the year wood pig 乙亥)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	338/339 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	354/355
Islamic calendar	365/366 (turn of the year 29/30 August)
Jewish calendar	4736/37 (August 27-28)
Coptic calendar	692/693
Malayalam calendar	151/152
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MDCCXXIX (1729) Diocletian's era : 692/693 (turn of the year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1286/87 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1287/88 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1014
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1032/33 (turn of the year April)

Events

April 19 : Reginar IV and his brother Lambert , try a second time - this time with West Franconian support from King Lothar and his brother Karl - that of their father Reginar III. recapture lost county of Hainaut , but suffer another defeat at Mons .
Heinrich the brawler returns from his captivity in Ingelheim to his Duchy of Bavaria . He immediately continued the conflict against Emperor Otto II . Heinrich not only put his royal seat of Regensburg in readiness for defense, but also mobilized his strong support among the Saxon nobility, to which the Margrave Gunther von Merseburg , Ekbert the One-Eyed and the Wettin Dedi belong. Otto then moved to Bavaria with an army and besieged Regensburg. Heinrich could not withstand the siege for long, and he fled to Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia .

Duke Otto and his sister on the Otto-Mathilden-Kreuz in Essen

In Regensburg in July, after Heinrich was deposed, Otto made far-reaching decisions to reorganize the southern German duchies. Otto I of Swabia is installed as Duke in Bavaria, which is reduced in its territorial population by almost a third. As a result of this measure, the Duchy of Carinthia is newly created, with which the Luitpoldinger Heinrich III. is enfeoffed by Bavaria , and the Ostmark goes to the Babenberger Luitpold . With the withdrawal of the counties of Verona and Friuli, Bavaria has lost its considerable influence in northern Italy and on royal Italian policy.

August 11th : A group of conspirators overthrows the Doge Pietro IV Candiano and kills him. During this uprising, the conspirators set fire to the Candianos palace, which then spreads uncontrollably and also destroys the churches of San Marco , San Teodoro and Santa Maria di Zobenigo as well as over 300 houses. On the following day, Pietro Orseolo , who probably took an active part in the overthrow of his predecessor, was elected the new Doge of Venice in the church of San Pietro di Castello .

October 1 : After the death of his father al-Hakam II , Hisham II becomes the third caliph of Córdoba at the age of 10 . His mother Subh and Jafar al-Mushafi, the first minister, are provisionally reigning for him. With the support of General Ghalib and the court secretary Almansor , the eunuchs are prevented from putting a brother of al-Hakam II on the throne.

Proclamation of Bardas Scleros as emperor

January 10 : The Byzantine emperor Johannes Tzimiskes dies, probably of typhus, possibly poisoned at the instigation of the court ruler Basileios Lakapenos , who rises as the regent of the new emperor Basil II to become the most powerful man in the empire. Immediately afterwards, General Bardas Scleros is proclaimed emperor by his troops and marches on Caesarea in Anatolia. Basileios Lakapenos thereupon calls Bardas Phokas the Younger back from exile and puts him at the head of the imperial army.

Islam in Italy : Taranto suffers another attack by the Saracens , led by Abū l-Qāsim Alī ibn al-Hasan , who want to take advantage of the weakening of the Byzantine Empire to conquer their territories in southern Italy .