961
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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961 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 961 CMLXI |
Ab urbe condita | 1714 |
Armenian calendar | 410 ԹՎ ՆԺ |
Assyrian calendar | 5711 |
Balinese saka calendar | 882–883 |
Bengali calendar | 368 |
Berber calendar | 1911 |
Buddhist calendar | 1505 |
Burmese calendar | 323 |
Byzantine calendar | 6469–6470 |
Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3658 or 3451 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3659 or 3452 |
Coptic calendar | 677–678 |
Discordian calendar | 2127 |
Ethiopian calendar | 953–954 |
Hebrew calendar | 4721–4722 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1017–1018 |
- Shaka Samvat | 882–883 |
- Kali Yuga | 4061–4062 |
Holocene calendar | 10961 |
Iranian calendar | 339–340 |
Islamic calendar | 349–350 |
Japanese calendar | Tentoku 5 / Ōwa 1 (応和元年) |
Javanese calendar | 861–862 |
Julian calendar | 961 CMLXI |
Korean calendar | 3294 |
Minguo calendar | 951 before ROC 民前951年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −507 |
Seleucid era | 1272/1273 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1503–1504 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1087 or 706 or −66 — to — 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1088 or 707 or −65 |
Year 961 (CMLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- Ani (present-day Turkey) becomes the capital of Armenia under the Bagratuni dynasty.
- The Huqiu Tower is built in China (often called the Chinese Leaning Tower of Pisa).
Europe
- March 6 – Byzantine reconquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
- Battle of Fitjar: Haakon the Good squashes the rebelling forces of Eric Bloodaxe's sons, but is killed.
- Harald Greycloak becomes ruler of the western part of Norway.
- St Paul's Cathedral in London is destroyed by fire.
- Al-Hakam II starts to rule.
By topic
Art
- Before this year – Textile with elephants and camels, known today as the Suaire de Saint-Josse, from Khurasan or Central Asia, is made. It was preserved in the Church of Saint-Josse-sur-Mer, near Caen in Normandy. It is now kept at the Louvre, Paris.
Births
- January 15 – Seongjong of Goryeo, Korean ruler (d. 997)
- Edith of Wilton, English nun and saint (d. 984)
- Sigmundur Brestisson, chieftain in the Faroe Islands (d. 1005)
Deaths
- King Haakon the Good of Norway
- Abd-ar-Rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba
- Emperor Yuanzong of Southern Tang (China)
- Abu'l-Qasim Unujur ibn al-Ikhshid, Ikhshidid ruler