999
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This article is about the year 999. For the number 999, see 999 (number).
For the British emergency telephone number, see 999 (emergency telephone number).
For other uses, see 999 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 960s 970s 980s – 990s – 1000s 1010s 1020s |
| Years: | 996 997 998 – 999 – 1000 1001 1002 |
Year 999 (CMXCIX) was a common year of the Julian Calendar.
| 999 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 999 CMXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1752 |
| Armenian calendar | 448 ԹՎ ՆԽԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -845 – -844 |
| Bengali calendar | 406 |
| Berber calendar | 1949 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1543 |
| Burmese calendar | 361 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6507 – 6508 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十二月十一日 (3635/3695-12-11) — to —
己亥年十一月廿一日(3636/3696-11-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 715 – 716 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 991 – 992 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4759 – 4760 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1054 – 1055 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 921 – 922 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4100 – 4101 |
| Holocene calendar | 10999 |
| Iranian calendar | 377 – 378 |
| Islamic calendar | 389 – 390 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3332 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1542 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Silesia is incorporated into territory ruled by Boleslaus I of Poland.
- The Orsay commune is founded.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- April 2—Gerbert of Aurillac becomes Pope Silvester II and succeeds Pope Gregory V as the 139th pope.
- Sigmundur Brestisson introduces Christianity in the Faroe Islands.
- Christianity is adopted in Iceland.
[edit] Births
- Bao Qingtian, Chinese magistrate and mayor of Kaifeng (d. 1062)
[edit] Deaths
- February 7—Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia
- February 18—Pope Gregory V
- December 16—Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
- December – Elisabeth of Vendôme, wife of Fulk III of Anjou (aka Fulk the Black)
- Maredudd ab Owain, King of Gwynedd
[edit] Mathematics
Dividing 999 by (999-1) gives an interesting sequence of numbers: 1.001002004008016032064128256513 Each block of three digits is a power of 2, with the block size being the same size as the digits in the numerator and denominator.
