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Calendar overview 985
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| 985 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 433/434 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 977/978 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1528/29 (southern Buddhism); 1527/28 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 61st (62nd) cycle
Year of the Wood Rooster乙酉 ( at the beginning of the year Wood Monkey 甲申) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 347/348 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 363/364 |
| Islamic calendar | 374/375 (turn of the year 23/24 May) |
| Jewish calendar | 4745/46 (September 16/17) |
| Coptic calendar | 701/702 |
| Malayalam calendar | 160/161 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCCXXXVIII (1738)
Diocletian's era : 701/702 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1295/96 (April)
Syria: 1296/97 (October) |
| Spanish era | 1023 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1041/42 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Central and Southern Europe
- After suppressing unrest in Rome , the noble John I Crescentius was given the title of Patricius Romanorum .
- The so-called Salic sacrilege Herzog is Otto of the family of Salian in different locations on the upper and middle Rhine of possession monastery White Castle on.
- Ekkehard I. is enfeoffed with the Margraviate of Meißen and establishes the Ekkehardin family .
- Almansor attacks Christian areas several times from the Caliphate of Córdoba and sacked Barcelona .
Northern Europe / America
- Viking Age : Erik the Red founds the first Viking settlement in Greenland , Brattahlíð near what is now Qassiarsuk . Of the 25 ships with which he set off from Iceland , 14 reach the “green island”, including that of Herjólfr Bárðarson .
Byzantine Empire
- The Byzantine emperor Basil II disempowered his great-uncle and regent Basil Lakapenos and henceforth ruled alone.
India
- Rajaraja I. becomes ruler of the Chola empire of the Tamils .
First documentary mentions
- First documented mention of Ettenstatt , Celle , Olang and Mortágua .
science and technology
- around 985: The Viking ship Haithabu 1 , salvaged in 1979 , is built.
religion
- Henry of Burgundy succeeds Eginolfus , who died on January 19th, Bishop of Lausanne .
- After the death of Boniface VII in June, John XV. , until now cardinal priest of San Vitale in Rome , at the instigation of the influential Roman patricians Crescentius I. Nomentanus and Johannes I. Crescentius elevated to pope.
- Everger becomes Archbishop of Cologne after Warin's death on September 21 .
- Osdag succeeds Othwin Bishop of Hildesheim, who died last year .
- Witigowo becomes abbot in Reichenau Monastery .
Born
- August 18 : al-Hākim bi-amr Allāh , caliph of the Egyptian Fatimids († 1021 )
- Bodhe , Scottish Prince († 1058 )
- Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad , Ismaili scholar, is considered the founder of the Druze religion († around 1021 )
- Radbot , Count in Klettgau, builder of Habsburg Castle († 1045 )
- around 984/985 : Gisela of Bavaria , Queen of Hungary († 1060 )
- around 985: Adalbert the Victorious , Margrave of Austria († 1055 )
- around 985: Hartwig II , Count Palatine of Bavaria and Count in the lower Salzburggau († 1027 )
- around 985: Thietmar , Saxon count († 1048 )
- around 985: Wazo , Bishop of Liège († 1048 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 19 : Eginolfus , Bishop of Lausanne
- January 26th : Ryogen , Japanese monk (* 912 )
- February 5th : Hildegard von Stein , Bavarian nobleman (* around 910 )
- June 16 : Hartwig I , Carinthian messenger of violence and Count Palatine of Bavaria (* before 953)
- July: Boniface VII , antipope and pope
- August 25 : Dietrich von Haldensleben , Count in Schwabengau and North Thuringia, Margrave of Nordmark and Count in Derlingau
- September 21 : Warin , Archbishop of Cologne
Exact date of death unknown
- Ramiro III. , King of León (* 961 )
- Wulfgar , Bishop of Ramsbury
Died around 985
- Hermann I. , Count of Werl
- 985/ 986 : Basil Lekapenos , Byzantine eunuch and Regent (* around 925 )
- 985/ 986 : Rikdag , Margrave of Meissen, Margrave of Merseburg and Zeitz and Gaugraf in schwabengau, Gau Gau Chutizi and Daleminzi
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