988
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This article is about the year 988.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 950s 960s 970s – 980s – 990s 1000s 1010s |
| Years: | 985 986 987 – 988 – 989 990 991 |
| 988 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 988 CMLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1741 |
| Armenian calendar | 437 ԹՎ ՆԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5738 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -856–-855 |
| Bengali calendar | 395 |
| Berber calendar | 1938 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1532 |
| Burmese calendar | 350 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6496–6497 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十二月初十日 (3624/3684-12-10) — to —
戊子年十一月二十日(3625/3685-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 704–705 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 980–981 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4748–4749 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1044–1045 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 910–911 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4089–4090 |
| Holocene calendar | 10988 |
| Iranian calendar | 366–367 |
| Islamic calendar | 377–378 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3321 |
| Minguo calendar | 924 before ROC 民前924年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1531 |
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Year 988 (CMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- The offensive of al-Mansur against the Christian kingdoms continues. He attacks the heart of the kingdom of León. The king Bermudo II has to escape to Zamora, the city of León resists four days but is taken, sacked and burned, Zamora has to surrender and the king must flee to Galicia.
- Dublin, Ireland is founded
- The city of Odense, Denmark is founded
- Kievan Rus' accepts Christianity
- Rus'–Byzantine War
[edit] Asia
- The Liao Dynasty adopts civil service examinations in the Southern Chancellery based on Tang Dynasty models.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- Baptism of Kievan Rus': Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev marries Anna, sister of Byzantine emperor Basil II and converts to Christianity.
- Abbo becomes abbot at Fleury.
- Foundation of the Mezhyhirskyi Monastery by Michael of Kiev
[edit] Births
- Tilopa, Indian tantric practitioner and mahasiddha
