992

Calendar overview 992

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992
Bolesław Chrobry becomes Duke of Poland .
992 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	440/441 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	984/985
Buddhist calendar	1535/36 (southern Buddhism); 1534/35 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	61st (62nd) cycle Year of the water dragon壬辰 ( at the beginning of the year metal rabbit 辛卯)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	354/355 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	370/371
Islamic calendar	381/382 (turn of the year March 8/9)
Jewish calendar	4752/53 (August 31 / September 1)
Coptic calendar	708/709
Malayalam calendar	167/168
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MDCCXLV (1745) Diocletian's era : 708/709 (turn of the year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1302/03 (April) Syria: 1303/04 (October)
Spanish era	1030
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1048/49 (turn of the year April)

Events

May 25th : With the death of his father Mieszko I , Bolesław Chrobry becomes Duke of Poland . Shortly before his death, Mieszko I seems to have tried to exclude Bolesław from the Polish line of succession in favor of his sons from his second marriage. This emerges from the Dagome Iudex , in which Mieszko also wanted to transfer his kingdom to the Pope. The reasons for the attempted exclusion of Bolesław are unclear.
June 27th : Conan I , Duke of Brittany , is defeated with his allies in the second battle of Conquereuil against Fulko III. , Count of Anjou , dies in the battle and loses the county of Nantes , which had only been conquered in 990 . His son Gottfried I follows him as Duke of Brittany and Count of Rennes .

After the death of Borrell II , his eldest son Raimund Borrell becomes Count of Barcelona , Girona and Osona . The county of Urgell falls to the second son Ermengol .

In Korea of the Goryeo dynasty, King Seongjong founded the educational institution Gukjagam , the forerunner of Sungkyunkwan University, in the capital Gaegyeong .

On the recommendation of the Archbishop of Magdeburg , Giselher, Eido I succeeds Volkold , who died on August 23, as Bishop of Meissen .

After the farm day in Grone, Bishop Gerdag of Hildesheim travels to Rome via Reichenau Monastery . On the return journey he died in Como on December 5th .

990 /992 Wulfsige III. becomes Bishop of Sherborne as the successor to the late Æthelsige I.

around 992: Guido von Arezzo , Italian Benedictine monk, music theorist and teacher († 1050 )

February 1st : Juhhar as-Siqillī , military leader of the Fatimids
February 29th : Oswald of York , Archbishop of York and Bishop of Worcester, Catholic saint (* around 925 )

Adso , Burgundian theologian and scholar (* 910 or 915 )
Borrell II , Count of Barcelona, Girona and Osona as well as of Urgell (* around 920 )
Heribert von der Wetterau , Count in Kinziggau, in Engersgau, in Wetterau and von Gleiberg (* 925 )

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