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Calendar overview 978
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  The West Franconian King Lothar attacks Aachen . Emperor Otto II barely escapes capture. |
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| 978 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 426/427 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 970/971 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1521/22 (southern Buddhism); 1520/21 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 61st (62nd) cycle
Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Ox 丁丑) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 340/341 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 356/357 (turn of the year March) |
| Islamic calendar | 367/368 (turn of the year 8/9 August) |
| Jewish calendar | 4738/39 (September 4th / 5th) |
| Coptic calendar | 694/695 |
| Malayalam calendar | 153/154 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCCXXXI (1731)
Diocletian's era : 694/695 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1288/89 (April)
Syria: 1289/90 (October) |
| Spanish era | 1016 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1034/35 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Central and Western Europe
- March 31 : At the Easter celebrations of Emperor Otto II in Quedlinburg, he again accepts Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia after his submission.
- May 18th : After the death of his father Friedrich I , the 13-year-old Dietrich I becomes Duke of Upper Lorraine and Count of Bar under the reign of his mother Beatrix von Franzien .
- Lothar , King of the West Franconian Empire , is angry about the enfeoffment of his enemy brother Karl with the Duchy of Lower Lorraine by the Roman-German Emperor Otto II , which he regards as a hostile act. Supported by Hugo Capet , he carried out a surprise attack on Aachen in June in order to capture Otto, who was currently there. Emperor Otto II and his wife Theophanu narrowly escape capture, they flee to Cologne. After Aachen was taken , the old imperial palace was plundered, and Lothar had the eagle on its roof turned from west to east in order to clearly demonstrate his superiority and claim to power. Then he withdraws again and dismisses his army.
- Lothar's coup led to a massive counter-attack by Otto, who - in order to set himself apart from the deceit of his adversary in terms of propaganda - formally announced his counterattack on Lothar's empire with the aim of installing Karl as king for October 1st . A resolution to this effect is passed at an imperial assembly in Dortmund in July, and the campaign begins as planned. However, the West Franconian side does not allow a field battle. The invading army was able to capture the Attigny , Soissons and Compiègne palaces and set them on fire, and also to conquer the city of Laon, but failed in the siege of Paris , which was defended by Hugo Capet. The onset of winter and illnesses force the Ottonian army to retreat, and when crossing the Aisne, Otto's rearguard is attacked and defeated by Lothar's troops.
England
- March 18 : King Eadweard II is murdered in Corfe Castle on the orders of his stepmother Ælfthryth , whose ten-year-old son Æthelred is crowned King of England on April 14 in Kingston by the Archbishops Dunstan of Canterbury and Oswald of York and ten other bishops . Eadwerd's body is hastily buried in Wareham without the royal honors.
Iberian Peninsula
- After thwarting a new conspiracy by the eunuchs against Caliph Hisham II , court secretary Almansor de facto ruled the Caliphate of Cordoba . To secure his position, he disbanded the Umayyad slave guard and built a new army of Moroccan mercenaries. With the new army he undertook numerous campaigns against the Christian empires in northern Spain over the next few years.
Republic of Venice
- In order not to expose the Republic of Venice to the revenge of the family of the murdered Doge Pietro IV. Candiano , Pietro Orseolo decides to resign as Doge of Venice and to leave Venice forever and enter a monastery. In the night of September 1st to 2nd, he secretly leaves and goes to the Benedictine abbey of Cuxa in Roussillon at the foot of the Pyrenees. Vitale Candiano is elected as the new Doge in the same month .
Byzantine Empire
Skirmish between the troops of Bardas Phokas and Bardas Skleros, miniature from the Madrid illuminated manuscript of the Skylitz
- The troops of the Byzantine emperor Basil II, under the command of the former insurgent Bardas Phokas, called to help by the regent Basil Lakapenos , suffer defeats in two battles against the usurper Bardas Scleros .
Eastern Europe and the Caucasus
- Vladimir I returns from Norway with a Varangian army and conquers the principality of Novgorod, which had been lost to his brother Jaropolk I the previous year, from the Kievan Rus . He then turns against the Principality of Polotsk , kills its ruler Rogwolod and forcibly takes his daughter Rogneda , who had previously turned him away , as his wife.
- Bagrat III. becomes king of Abkhazia .
religion
- December 24th : Hildebold follows Hanno as Bishop of Worms after his death .
Born
- Abū Saʿīd-i Abū l-Chair , Persian Sufi († 1049 )
- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr , Islamic legal scholar in Islamic Spain, Qadi in Lisbon and Santarém († 1071 )
- Poppo , Abbot of Stablo and Malmedy, St. Maximin in Trier, Wissembourg, Echternach and Sankt Gallen († 1048 )
- around 978: Berno , abbot of the Reichenau monastery († 1048 )
- around 978: Zoe , Byzantine empress († 1050 )
Died
Date of death secured
- March 18 : Eadweard II , King of England (* around 962 )
- May 18 : Friedrich I , Duke of Upper Lorraine and Count von Bar
- December 24th : Hanno , Bishop of Worms
Exact date of death unknown
- Ælfwald I. , Bishop of Sherborne
- Gerold von Großwalsertal , hermit in Frisun and Catholic saint (* around 900 )
- Li Houzhu , Chinese poet and king of the southern Tang Empire (* 937 )
Died around 978
- Rogwolod , Prince of Polotsk
- 978/ 979 : Thietmar I. , Graf in schwabengau, Count in Gau Serimunt, Margrave of the Nordmark, of Meissen and Merseburg (* around 920 )
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