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| 983 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 431/432 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 975/976 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1526/27 (southern Buddhism); 1525/26 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 61st (62nd) cycle
Year of the water sheep癸未 ( at the beginning of the year water horse 壬午) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 345/346 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 361/362 (turn of the year March) |
| Islamic calendar | 372/373 (turn of the year June 14/15) |
| Jewish calendar | 4743/44 (9/10 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 699/700 |
| Malayalam calendar | 158/159 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCCXXXVI (1736)
Diocletian's era : 699/700 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1293/94 (April)
Syria: 1294/95 (October) |
| Spanish era | 1021 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1039/40 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Holy Roman Empire / Italy
The battle at Cape Colonna , lost by Emperor Otto II last year, has far-reaching consequences in the Holy Roman Empire : The imperial princes demand a meeting with the emperor. On May 27 in is Verona a Reichstag held. The duchies of Bavaria and Swabia are newly occupied. The Luitpolding Heinrich III. , one of the rebels of 977 , receives the Duchy of Bavaria , which is reunited with Carinthia . Konrad I from the Konradin family becomes Duke of Swabia . The Rheingau goes to the diocese of Mainz . Adalbert is appointed bishop of Prague and invested with the staff on June 3rd by the emperor. The most important decision of the greats of Italy and Germany is the choice of three-year-old Otto III. to the king. With the departing participants of the court day, the child is led across the Alps to receive the royal consecration at the traditional coronation site of the Ottonians , in Aachen .
The Slav uprising of 983 against Dietrich von Haldensleben begins in June: Liutizen under the Christian Abodrite prince Mistiwoj devastate Stormarn and Holstein and burn Hamburg down. The Oldenburg diocese is destroyed.
On June 29, dissatisfied Slavs attacked the Havelberg bishopric . Three days later they destroy Brandenburg an der Havel . A Saxon army led by Archbishop Giselher von Magdeburg and Bishop Hildeward von Halberstadt succeeded in the battle of the Tangiers in repelling the advance on Magdeburg and forcing the Slavs to retreat across the Elbe. The Slav uprising blocked the settlement east of the Elbe for two centuries . The Christianization of the Elbe Slavs has temporarily failed.
- July 10th : After the death of Pope Benedict VII , Otto II again goes to Rome to appoint a successor. Otto's Arch Chancellor Petrus Canepanova becomes the new Pope at the end of November under the Pope's name John XIV .
- December 7th : Otto II dies unexpectedly of malaria at the age of 28 .
- After the death of the emperor, Bishop Folkmar of Utrecht releases his prisoner Heinrich the quarrel .
- December 25th : Otto III. is crowned German king three weeks after the death of his father in Aachen at the age of three. The Archbishop of Cologne Warin takes over the guardianship of the underage king.
First documentary mentions
- Golaten is first mentioned in a document under the name Gulada .
economy
- July: Emperor Otto II imposes another trade blockade against the Republic of Venice under the Doge's Tribuno Memmo . It ends with the death of the emperor in December.
religion
- February 17th : After Volkmar's death , Rethar becomes Bishop of Paderborn .
- August 13th : Ludolf dies. Ditmar I becomes the new Abbot of Corvey .
- Gebhard von Konstanz founds the Petershausen monastery .
Born
- around 983: Bernhard I , Count von Werl
- around 983: Bernhard von Menthon , French nobleman and saint of the Catholic Church
Died
Date of death secured
- February 17th : Volkmar , Bishop of Paderborn
- March 26 : Adud ad-Daula , ruler of the Shiite Buyid dynasty (* 936 )
- July 10 : Benedict VII , Pope
- August 13 : Ludolf , Abbot of Corvey and Saint (* around 915 )
- August 31 : Wigfried , Bishop of Verdun (* before 958)
- December 7th : Otto II , Holy Roman Emperor (* 955 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Abu l-Laith as-Samarqandi , Arab theologian (* 944 )
- Ludolf , Abbot of Werden and Helmstedt
- Minamoto no Shitagō , Japanese poet, scholar and nobleman (* 911 )
- Øssur Havgrímsson , figure from the Faroese saga (* 960 )
