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979
Isle of Man landscape
The year 979 is called the founding year of the Isle of Man's
" Tynwald " parliament .
979 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 427/428 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 971/972
Buddhist calendar 1522/23 (southern Buddhism); 1521/22 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 61st (62nd) cycle

Year of the Earth- Rabbit 己卯 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Tiger 戊寅)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 341/342 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar 357/358 (turn of the year March)
Islamic calendar 368/369 (turn of the year 28/29 July)
Jewish calendar 4739/40 (September 24/25)
Coptic calendar 695/696
Malayalam calendar 154/155
Roman calendar ab urbe condita MDCCXXXII (1732)

Diocletian's era : 695/696 (turn of the year November)

Seleucid era Babylon: 1289/90 (April)

Syria: 1290/91 (October)

Spanish era 1017
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 1035/36 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Byzantine Empire

Republic of Venice

Coat of arms of the Tribuno Memmo
  • November: One year after his election, Vitale Candiano abdicates as Doge of Venice and retires as a monk in the monastery of San Ilario. He dies just four days after entering the monastery. Tribuno Memmo is elected as his successor . He is a compromise candidate on which the two warring camps of the imperial-friendly Candiano and Orseolo supporters, who are oriented towards Byzantium, can finally agree.

Other events in Europe

Asia

Liao Dynasty and Song Dynasty Territories

religion

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