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Calendar overview 990
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| 990 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 438/439 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 982/983 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1533/34 (southern Buddhism); 1532/33 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 61st (62nd) cycle
Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Ox Jahres) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 352/353 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 368/369 |
| Islamic calendar | 379/380 (turn of the year March 30/31) |
| Jewish calendar | 4750/51 (September 21/22) |
| Coptic calendar | 706/707 |
| Malayalam calendar | 165/166 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCCXLIII (1743)
Diocletian's era : 706/707 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1300/01 (April)
Syria: 1301/02 (October) |
| Spanish era | 1028 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1046/47 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Iberian Peninsula
- December 2 : The Moorish general Almansor conquers the fortifications of Montemor for the Caliphate of Cordoba .
East Franconian-German Empire
- Emperor widow Theophanu is returning to Germany from the Italian expedition that she began last year .
Kievan Rus
- A war between the Kievan Rus under Vladimir I and the Pechenegs begins.
- The city of Vladimir is first mentioned in a document.
Asia
religion
- January 19 : Gerdag succeeds his uncle Osdag, who died the previous year, as Bishop of Hildesheim and is probably consecrated by Archbishop Willigis of Mainz in Heiligenstadt .
- Sigeric the Serious , hitherto Bishop of Ramsbury , is ordained Archbishop of Canterbury . In the same year he went on a pilgrimage to Rome and was the first to describe the Via Francigena in this context .
Born
Born 990
- April: Ibn al-Farrā ' , Hanbali scholar in Baghdad († 1066 )
- Chananel ben Chuschiel , Jewish religious scholar in Kairuan († around 1055 )
- Fujiwara no Yorimichi , Japanese regent († 1074 )
- Mieszko II. Lambert , King, later Duke of Poland († 1034 )
- Nissim ben Jakob , Talmudic scholar and folk teller in Kairuan († around 1060 )
Born around 990
- Ælfgifu of Northampton , Anglo-Saxon nobleman and co-regent of Norway († 1040 )
- Alruna von Cham , German noblewoman and Catholic blessed († 1045 )
- Aribo , Archbishop of Mainz († 1031 )
- Dietrich I. , Count of Wettin, in Schwabengau, von Eilenburg and Brehna, Count in Hassegau and in Gau Siusili and Margrave of the Mark Lausitz († 1034 )
- Engelbert IV. , Count in the Norital and Pustertal († 1040 )
- Halinard , Bishop of Lyon († around 1052 )
- Hartwig , Bishop of Brixen († 1039 )
- Johannes Scotus , Mecklenburg bishop of Irish or Scottish origin († 1066 )
- Conrad II , Holy Roman Emperor († 1039 )
- Sámuel Aba , King of Hungary († 1044 )
- Sancho III. , King of Navarre, Count of Aragon and Castile († 1035 )
- Thietmar , Margrave of Lusatia and Count in Swabia and Northern Thuringia († 1030 )
- Tughrul Beg , Sultan of the Seljuks († 1063 )
Died
Date of death secured
- March 15 : Siegfried I , Count of Walbeck and in Möckerngau
- April 23 : Ekkehard II of Sankt Gallen , sequence writer
- July 31 : Fujiwara no Kaneie , Japanese regent (* 929 )
- December 11th : Folkmar , Bishop of Utrecht
- December 16 : Folcuin , Abbot of Lobbes (* around 935 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Dunasch ben Labrat , Jewish commentator, poet and grammarian in Cordoba (* 920 )
- Heinrich , Count in Wormsgau , father of the later Emperor Konrad II.
- Kiyohara no Motosuke , noble Japanese Waka poet and scholar (* 908 )
- Oliba Cabreta , Count of Cerdanya, Besalú and Conflent
Died around 990
- Egill Skallagrímsson , skald, chief and Viking in Iceland (* around 910 )
- 990/ 992 : Æthelsige I. , bishop of Sherborne
- 990/ 995 : Mstivoj , prince of Abodrites
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