998

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998
The Venetian doge Pietro II. Orseolo defeats the Dalmatians.	Abbot Odilo of Cluny introduces All Souls Day in all Cluniac monasteries.
998 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	446/447 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	990/991
Buddhist calendar	1541/42 (southern Buddhism); 1540/41 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	61st (62nd) cycle Year of the earth dog 戊戌 ( at the beginning of the year fire rooster 丁酉)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	360/361 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	376/377
Islamic calendar	387/ 388 /389 (Year 2/3 January. // 22/23. December)
Jewish calendar	4758/59 (23/24 September)
Coptic calendar	714/715
Malayalam calendar	173/174
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MDCCLI (1751) Diocletian's era 714/715
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1308/09 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1309/10 (New Year October)
Spanish era	1036
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1054/55 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Holy Roman Empire / Italy

• February 20 : Otto III. reaches Rome on his new Italian train , where he is granted admission voluntarily. Crescentius I. Nomentanus , the leader of the anti- imperial party, holed up in the Castel Sant'Angelo , while antipope John XVI. flees the city. A little later he is discovered by Ottonian troops in a tower, blinded, cruelly mutilated and led through the city on a triumphal procession. At a quickly convened synod, he was formally removed and placed in a monastery. Pope Gregory V , a relative of the emperor, regained control of the city.
• April 28 : On a certificate from Otto III. The motto of the Renovatio imperii Romanorum is officially published for the first time .
• April 29th : After a long siege, Crescentius I Nomentanus is captured and beheaded.
• after August 3rd: Heribert is after the death of Hildebold von Worms by Otto III. appointed Chancellor of Germany .

Hungary

Medieval miniature of the execution of Koppany

• In the battle of Veszprém , the Hungarian tribal prince Koppány from the Árpáden family was defeated by Duke Stephen's troops , who had the decisive support of Bavarian knights, and was executed on the battlefield. Stephan is thus the undisputed ruler of Hungary .

Republic of Venice

Venetian possessions around the year 1000

• 998/ 1000 : On Ascension of Christ-one wins Venetian fleet under Doge Pietro II Orseolo. A victory over the Dalmatians, to which the city-state since a defeat in 887 does have to pay tribute. On his return in July, Pietro held the title of Duke of Dalmatia ( Dux Dalmatiae ).

Caliphate of Cordoba

• Abd al-Malik is appointed governor in northern Morocco by his father Almansor , the actual ruler of the Caliphate of Córdoba in Fez .

Asia

• Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni ousts his brother Ismail in Khorasan and takes power in the Ghaznavid empire with the capital Ghazni - temporarily under the rule of the Persian Samanids . Under him the former military slave dynasty of the Ghaznavids reached its peak of power.

First documentary mentions

• Bassano del Grappa in Veneto , Bevaix , Brot-Plamboz , Hohenpolding in Bavaria and Noiraigue in the canton of Neuchâtel and Stetten in the canton of Aargau are mentioned for the first time.

Culture

• Rudolf of Burgundy donated grapes from his homeland to Bevaix Abbey , thus laying the foundation for the Neuchâtel wine culture.
• First written mention of viticulture at Saale / Unstrut in Thuringia on the basis of a deed of gift.

religion

Buddhism

The Byōdō-in's Phoenix Hall

• The Japanese temple Byōdō-in is built.

Christianity

• Franko succeeds Hildebold , who died on August 3, as Bishop of Worms .
• November 2 : Abbot Odilo von Cluny designated this day as a day of remembrance for the deceased. In a few years' time, the day will develop into All Souls Day .

• Emperor Otto III. appoints Gerbert von Aurillac as Archbishop of Ravenna and Leo von Vercelli as Bishop of the Piedmontese city of Vercelli .
• Thiddag succeeds Adalbert Bishop of Prague, who was murdered by the Prussians the previous year .
• The Christianization of the Faroe Islands by Sigmundur Brestisson begins. She met with considerable resistance from the Viking chief Tróndur í Gøtu .

Born

• Masud I of Ghazni , Sultan of the Ghaznavids († 1041 )

• to 988 : / 998 Ali ibn Ridwan (d., Egyptian doctor and astrologer 1061 / 62 or 1067 / 68 )

Died

Date of death secured

• April 29th : Crescentius I. Nomentanus , Roman patrician
• April: Abū Sulaimān al-Chattābī , Islamic theologian, man of letters, philologist and lexicographer (* 931 )
• July 15 : Abu l-Wafa al Busdjani , Persian mathematician and astronomer (* 940 )

Drawing of Hildebold's grave plate

• August 3 : Hildebold , Bishop of Worms (* around 940 )
• August 24th : Sisinios II , Patriarch of Constantinople

• September 3 : Gottfried the Prisoner , Count of Bidgau and Methingau, Count of Verdun, Count in Hainaut (* around 937 )
• October 28 : Siegfried I , Count in the Moselgau and Vogt of the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin, founder of Luxembourg (* around 920 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Koppány , Hungarian tribal prince (* around 950 )

Died around 998

• 995 /998: Ibn al-Nadim , Shiite scholar, bibliographer and bookseller

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