985
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 950s 960s 970s – 980s – 990s 1000s 1010s |
| Years: | 982 983 984 – 985 – 986 987 988 |
| 985 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 985 CMLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1738 |
| Armenian calendar | 434 ԹՎ ՆԼԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -859 – -858 |
| Berber calendar | 1935 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1529 |
| Burmese calendar | 347 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6493 – 6494 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲申年十二月初八日 (3621/3681-12-8) — to —
乙酉年十一月十七日(3622/3682-11-17) |
| Coptic calendar | 701 – 702 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 977 – 978 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4745 – 4746 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1040 – 1041 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 907 – 908 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4086 – 4087 |
| Holocene calendar | 10985 |
| Iranian calendar | 363 – 364 |
| Islamic calendar | 374 – 375 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3318 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1528 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Barcelona is sacked by Al-Mansur.
- Greenland is colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct—see History of Greenland).
- Lady Wulfruna founds the town that later becomes the city of Wolverhampton.
- Henry the Wrangler is restored as Duke of Bavaria.
[edit] Asia
- Rajaraja Chola I (considered by many as the greatest Emperor of the Chola Empire) becomes the Chola Emperor and brings in another golden era of Tamils and of the Chola dynasty.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- August—Pope John XV succeeds Pope John XIV as the 137th pope.
[edit] Births
- Canute the Great (approximate) (d. 1035)
- Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, later sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt
