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Calendar overview 987
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| 987 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 435/436 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 979/980 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1530/31 (southern Buddhism); 1529/30 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 61st (62nd) cycle
Year of the fire pig丁亥 ( at the beginning of the year fire dog 丙戌) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 349/350 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 365/366 |
| Islamic calendar | 376/377 (turn of the year 2/3 May) |
| Jewish calendar | 4747/48 (August 26-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 703/704 |
| Malayalam calendar | 162/163 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDCCXL (1740)
Diocletian's era : 703/704 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1297/98 (April)
Syria: 1298/99 (October) |
| Spanish era | 1025 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1043/44 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
France
- March 30th : Baldwin IV, only 10 years old , becomes the new Count of Flanders after the death of his father Arnulf II .
- May 21 : Ludwig V , the last West Franconian ruler of the Carolingian dynasty , dies at the age of around 20 after a hunting accident without leaving any descendants.
- July 3 : Hugo Capet becomes king of the west of France . The beginning of the rule of the Capetians is considered to be the founding date of the Kingdom of France . Ludwig's uncle Karl is ignored with the argument that, as Duke of Lower Lorraine, he was a vassal of a foreign ruler and that he had entered into an inappropriate marriage.
- December: Hugo's son Robert is crowned co-king in Orléans by Archbishop Adalbero of Reims .
- Burchard I , Count of Vendôme , becomes Count of Paris .
Byzantine Empire / Principality of Kiev
- After the defeat of the Byzantine emperor Basil II against the Bulgarians last year, Bardas Scleros returned from his exile in Baghdad and reaffirmed his claim to the imperial throne. At the same time, Bardas Phocas the Younger revolted again. At a first meeting he offers his rival an alliance against Basil II and a partition of the empire, but then surprisingly takes him prisoner and arrests him in the fortress of Tyropoion. On August 15 or September 14, he will be proclaimed a basileus for the second time in Charsianon . In the period that followed, with the support of King David II of Tao-Klardschetien, he conquered almost all of Asia Minor .
- Vladimir Svyatoslavich is baptized by Byzantine priests in Kiev . Thereupon he marries the purple-born Byzantine princess Anna. The Grand Duke of the Kievan Rus is the only European ruler to date to have the honor of marrying a daughter of an emperor of Byzantium. The German King Otto III. this honor was denied shortly before.
Iberian Peninsula
- Almansor destroys Coimbra and León , conquers several castles north of the Douro and reaches Santiago de Compostela . The city is evacuated and the Moors burn it to the ground. Al-Mansur has the doors and bells of the sanctuary brought to Córdoba and the sanctuary's church destroyed.
religion
- The St.-Adelheidis-Stift becomes Reichsstift .
Born
- Zhang Boduan , Chinese scholar († 1082 )
- around 984/987 : Stanislaw , Prince of Smolensk († before 1015)
- around 987: Emma of Normandy , Norman nobleman, Queen of England († 1052 )
Died
- January 10 : Pietro Orseolo , Doge of Venice (* 928 )
- March 30th : Arnulf II , Count of Flanders (* around 961 )
- September 8 : Adalbert I , Count of Vermandois (* around 915 )
- November 1 : Harald Blauzahn , King of Denmark and Norway (* around 910 )
- Abu l-Fawaris , ruler of the Ichschidids in Egypt (* 957 )
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