965
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This article is about the year 965.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 930s 940s 950s – 960s – 970s 980s 990s |
| Years: | 962 963 964 – 965 – 966 967 968 |
| 965 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 965 CMLXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1718 |
| Armenian calendar | 414 ԹՎ ՆԺԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5715 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -879–-878 |
| Bengali calendar | 372 |
| Berber calendar | 1915 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1509 |
| Burmese calendar | 327 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6473–6474 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年十一月廿六日 (3601/3661-11-26) — to —
乙丑年十二月初六日(3602/3662-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 681–682 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 957–958 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4725–4726 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1021–1022 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 887–888 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4066–4067 |
| Holocene calendar | 10965 |
| Iranian calendar | 343–344 |
| Islamic calendar | 353–355 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3298 |
| Minguo calendar | 947 before ROC 民前947年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1508 |
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Year 965 (CMLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- The Khazar fortress of Sarkel falls to the Kievan Rus.
- Byzantine-Arab Wars: Nikephoros Sacks Tarsus and destroys the Emirate in Cilicia. Arab raids into Anatolia permanently cease. That same year, Byzantine troops occupy Cyprus, liberating the Greek population from Arab control.
[edit] Asia
- Northern Song armies invade the Later Shu Kingdom and force it to surrender.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Art
- Dome in front of the mihrab, Great Mosque of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, is built.
[edit] Religion
- March 1 – Pope Leo VIII is restored in place of Pope Benedict V.
- October 1 – Pope John XIII succeeds Pope Leo VIII as the 133rd pope.
[edit] Births
- Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (d. 1017)
- Sweyn I of Denmark
[edit] Deaths
- February 22 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy
- July 4 – Pope Benedict V
- Meng Chang, Emperor of Later Shu
