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Calendar overview 988
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| 988 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 436/437 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 980/981 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1531/32 (southern Buddhism); 1530/31 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 61st (62nd) cycle
Year of the earth-rat戊子 ( at the beginning of the year fire-pig 丁亥) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 350/351 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 366/367 |
| Islamic calendar | 377/378 (turn of the year 20/21 April) |
| Jewish calendar | 4748/49 (September 14/15) |
| Coptic calendar | 704/705 |
| Malayalam calendar | 163/164 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCCXLI (1741)
Diocletian's era : 704/705 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1298/99 (April)
Syria: 1299/1300 (October) |
| Spanish era | 1026 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1044/45 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Iberian Peninsula
- Army leader Almansor sacked the city of León from the Caliphate of Córdoba and had the city burned down. Then he sacked Zamora and Sahagún and had the monasteries of Eslonza and Sahagún destroyed.
- On a pilgrimage to Rome, Oliba Cabreta is moved to renounce worldly life and he joins the Montecassino Abbey as a Benedictine monk . His son Wilfried II becomes Count of Cerdanya and Conflent .
- The County of Berga is founded. Oliba de Besalú , another son of Oliba Cabreta, becomes the first count.
France
- Duke Karl of Lower Lorraine from the Carolingian dynasty , who was passed over in favor of Hugo Capet in the French succession last year , begins the battle for the throne: with the help of his illegitimate half-brother Arnulf, he takes the royal city of Laon . The local bishop Adalbero of Laon is imprisoned as is the king's widow Emma of Italy .
Eastern Europe
The Varangian Guard in the Chronicle of Johannes Skylitzes (12th century)
- The Varangian Guard was formed when the Kiev Grand Duke Vladimir I sent 6,000 Vikings to the Byzantine Emperor Basil II , who with their help defended his throne against the attack by Bardas Phokas .
First documentary mentions
- Neckarbischofsheim and Neckargemünd are first mentioned in a document.
science and technology
- The Egyptian vizier Yaqub ibn Killis founds the al-Azhar University in the Azhar Mosque in Cairo . Teaching focuses on theology and law.
religion
Roman Catholic Church
- April 28 : After Adaldag's death , Libentius I becomes Archbishop of Bremen .
- June 24th : Eticho dies, Liutold becomes his successor as Bishop of Augsburg .
- Johannes Philagathos becomes Archbishop of Piacenza .
Russian Orthodox Church
- July 28th : Day of the baptism of Russia : Grand Duke Vladimir I , ruler of the Kievan Rus , receives the Orthodox baptism. Due to the trade, which is mainly focused on Constantinople , despite initial attempts at conquest by the Rus , close contacts were established with Byzantium , which led to Christian proselytizing and ultimately to the conversion of the Rus to the Orthodox faith . This creates the Russian Orthodox Church . In Kiev , pagan temples are destroyed and Slavic idols are thrown into the Dnieper.
Born
- around 988: Orso Orseolo , Bishop of Torcello and Patriarch of Grado († 1049 )
- 988/ 989 : Mathilde of Schwabenhaus , Duchess of Kärnten and upper Lorraine († 1032 )
- give 988/ 998 : Ali ibn Ridwan (d., Egyptian doctor and astrologer 1061 / 62 or 1067 / 68 )
Died
Date of death secured
- February 13 : Adalbert Atto , Count of Canossa, of Reggio nell'Emilia, Mantua and Modena
- April 28 : Adaldag , Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg (* around 900 )
- May 6th : Dietrich II , Count of Friesland
- May 19 : Dunstan , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909 )
- June 24th : Eticho , Bishop of Augsburg (* 944 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Abū Nasr as-Sarrādsch , Persian Sufi scholar
- Arnaud II , Count of Angoulême
- John I Crescentius , Patricius of Rome and Count of Terracina
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