975

This article is about the year 975.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	940s  950s  960s  – 970s –  980s  990s  1000s
Years:	972 973 974 – 975 – 976 977 978

975 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

975 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	975 CMLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1728
Armenian calendar	424 ԹՎ ՆԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5725
Bahá'í calendar	-869–-868
Bengali calendar	382
Berber calendar	1925
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1519
Burmese calendar	337
Byzantine calendar	6483–6484
Chinese calendar	甲戌年十一月十六日 (3611/3671-11-16) — to — 乙亥年十一月廿六日 (3612/3672-11-26)
Coptic calendar	691–692
Ethiopian calendar	967–968
Hebrew calendar	4735–4736
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1031–1032
- Shaka Samvat	897–898
- Kali Yuga	4076–4077
Holocene calendar	10975
Iranian calendar	353–354
Islamic calendar	364–365
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3308
Minguo calendar	937 before ROC 民前937年
Thai solar calendar	1518

Year 975 (CMLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• Al-Azhar University is founded in Cairo, Egypt (the second oldest university in the world).

Europe

• King Edward the Martyr is crowned in England.

Asia

• Emperor Taizu of Song China conquers Hunan Province.
• The Southern Tang Kingdom is conquered by the Song Dynasty.
• Al-Aziz becomes Fatimid Caliph.

Births

• Stephen I of Hungary (d.1038)
• Thietmar of Merseburg
• Andre Bertelli Araujo

Deaths

• Alp Tigin, Turkic general
• July 8 – King Edgar of England
• al-Muizz, Fatimid Caliph
• Gwangjong of Goryeo
• Turketel, abbot of Crowland
• Gu Hongzhong