995

Calendar overview 995

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995
Otto III. comes of age and takes over the independent regency as Roman-German king .
995 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	443/444 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	987/988
Buddhist calendar	1538/39 (southern Buddhism); 1537/38 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	61st (62nd) cycle Year of the wood sheep乙未 ( at the beginning of the year wood horse 甲午)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	357/358 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	373/374
Islamic calendar	384/385 (turn of the year 4th / 5th February)
Jewish calendar	4755/56 (August 28-29)
Coptic calendar	711/712
Malayalam calendar	170/171
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MDCCXLVIII (1748) Diocletian's era : 711/712 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1305/06 (April) Syria: 1306/07 (October)
Spanish era	1033
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1051/52 (turn of the year April)

Events

King Otto III. holds a summer court day in Quedlinburg , and runs from mid-August to early October since the Slavs uprising of 983 held almost yearly campaigns against the north living Elbslawen continued. Otto stays in Mecklenburg as the friend and patron of the Abodrite Duke Mistislaw , who has just succeeded his father Mistiwoj . In September for a courtship of Otto III. Archbishop Johannes Philagathos and Bishop Bernward of Würzburg sent to Byzantium . After his return to the Reich, he expanded the diocese of Meissen considerably on December 6th with a privilege issued in Frankfurt and multiplied its tithe income.

Pope John XV becomes enemies with the Roman patrician Crescentius I. Nomentanus from the family of the Crescentier and has to flee to Tuscany. He sends a cry for help to King Otto III.

After strong resistance from the Beni Gómez family , the rulers of Saldana , Liebana , Carrión and Zamora , Almansor succeeds in destroying the city of Santa Maria de Carrión .
With Kenneth II. The fourth Scottish king in a row is murdered. He is followed by his distant nephew Constantine III.

March 31 : The city of Gera is mentioned for the first time in a border description.
September 10th : In a document from King Otto III. Mikelenburg Castle in the village of Mecklenburg is mentioned for the first time. The place gives the whole state of Mecklenburg its future name.
October 20 : Ströbeck is mentioned for the first time in a document.

The city of Krems is first mentioned in a document as Chremisa : in the wording it says orientalis urbs quae dicitur Chremisa - a fortified place in the east, which is called Chremisa.

994/995 : The St. Viktor Abbey in front of Mainz is founded and in the presence of King Otto III. inaugurated by the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis .

Abū Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn al-Hasan at-Tūsī , Islamic theologian and lawyer († 1067 )
Håkon Eiriksson , Jarl and Viceroy of Norway († 1029 )
Olav II. Haraldsson , King of Norway and Catholic saint († 1030 )
Sigvat Tordsson , Norwegian skald († around 1047 )

around 995: Harald II , King of Denmark († 1018 )
around 995: Hermann II , Archbishop of Cologne († 1056 )
around 995: Johannes Gualbertus , Florentine nobleman and Catholic saint († 1073 )
around 995: Canute the Great , King of Denmark, Norway and England († 1035 )

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