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Calendar overview 980
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 is murdered. |
 prince of the Kievan Rus . |
| 980 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 428/429 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 972/973 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1523/24 (southern Buddhism); 1522/23 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 61st (62nd) cycle
Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Rabbit 己卯) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 342/343 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 358/359 (turn of the year March) |
| Islamic calendar | 369/370 (turn of the year 16/17 July) |
| Jewish calendar | 4740/41 (September 12/13) |
| Coptic calendar | 696/697 |
| Malayalam calendar | 155/156 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCCXXXIII (1733)
Diocletian's era : 696/697 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1290/91 (April)
Syria: 1291/92 (October) |
| Spanish era | 1018 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1036/37 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Central and Western Europe
- May: Emperor Otto II and King Lothar of West Franconia meet on the border of their two empires and make peace. Lothar has to do without Lorraine .
- After Pope Benedict VII asked him for help against the Crescentier at the end of the previous year , the Roman-German Emperor Otto II undertook another expedition to Italy . In the Franconian town of Bruchsal , the final regulations for the areas north of the Alps are made in October and the first Italian delegations are received. The emperor then moved to Italy with his entourage from Chur and Chiavenna . For the first time on Italian soil, Otto is attested in Pavia on December 5th . The whole yard celebrates Christmas there.
- Johannes Philagathos is promoted to imperial arch-chancellor in imperial Italy .
Eastern Europe
- Jaropolk I. during negotiations of Varangian warriors of his brother I. Vladimir killed. Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod , becomes Grand Prince of Kievan Rus .
- around 980: Vladimir I founds the Principality of Turow .
First documentary mentions
Culture
religion
- First half of the year: Bishop Dodilo von Brandenburg is strangled by people around him for unknown reasons. Volkmar I. becomes the third bishop of Brandenburg. It is consecrated by Archbishop Adalbert von Magdeburg .
Born
Date of birth saved
- July 5 : Mokjong , 7th King of the Goryeo Empire in Korea († 1009 )
- July 15 : Ichijō , Emperor of Japan († 1011 )
Exact date of birth unknown
Born around 980
- Abū Alī al-Husain ibn Abdullāh ibn Sīnā , Persian doctor, physicist, philosopher, poet, lawyer, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and music theorist († 1037 )
- Bartholomew , co-founder and abbot of the monastery Grottaferrata, near Rome († 1050 / 55 )
- Ekkehard IV. , St. Gallen scholar, chronicler, poet, translator and glossator († after 1057)
- Gerhard , Bishop of Csanád, Catholic saint and patron saint of Budapest († 1046 )
- Hermann I. , Margrave of the Mark Meissen and Count in Hassegau († 1038 )
- Hermann II. , Count von Werl, Count in Lochtrop, Leri- and Dreingau and Count in the Diocese of Osnabrück, Vogt of the Werden monasteries, Liesborn, Meschede and Oedingen († 1025 )
- Humbert I , Count of Savoy († 1048 )
- Kunigunde of Luxembourg , Empress and Regent of the Holy Roman Empire († around 1033 )
- Theobald II , Count of Blois, Tours, Chartres, Châteaudun, Beauvais, Reims and Dreux († 1004 )
- Theophylact II of Tusculum, as Benedict VIII Pope († 1024 )
- Werner von Kyburg , German count († 1030 )
Died
- January 15 : Berthold von Schweinfurt , Margrave in Franconia
- Dodilo , Bishop of Brandenburg
- Jaropolk I , prince of the Kievan Rus (* around 952 )
- around 980: Ibn Hālawaih , traditional Arab scholar
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