967
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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967 by topic |
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Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 967 CMLXVII |
Ab urbe condita | 1720 |
Armenian calendar | 416 ԹՎ ՆԺԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 5717 |
Balinese saka calendar | 888–889 |
Bengali calendar | 374 |
Berber calendar | 1917 |
Buddhist calendar | 1511 |
Burmese calendar | 329 |
Byzantine calendar | 6475–6476 |
Chinese calendar | 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3664 or 3457 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3665 or 3458 |
Coptic calendar | 683–684 |
Discordian calendar | 2133 |
Ethiopian calendar | 959–960 |
Hebrew calendar | 4727–4728 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1023–1024 |
- Shaka Samvat | 888–889 |
- Kali Yuga | 4067–4068 |
Holocene calendar | 10967 |
Iranian calendar | 345–346 |
Islamic calendar | 356–357 |
Japanese calendar | Kōhō 4 (康保4年) |
Javanese calendar | 867–868 |
Julian calendar | 967 CMLXVII |
Korean calendar | 3300 |
Minguo calendar | 945 before ROC 民前945年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −501 |
Seleucid era | 1278/1279 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1509–1510 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1093 or 712 or −60 — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1094 or 713 or −59 |
Year 967 (CMLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
- The Fatimid general Gawhar al-Siqilli launches a new victorious campaign in the West of the Magrib.
Europe
- The Bishopric of Merseburg is formed in Saxony, with Boso of Merseburg as its first bishop.
- Conchobar mac Tadg (Connor MacTeague) becomes King of Connacht.
- Pandulf Ironhead becomes duke of Spoleto.
- Otto II is crowned co-emperor by Pope John XIII.
- Olaf Tryggvason flees Norway with his mother, only to be attacked by Estonian Vikings.
- Dado becomes count of Pombia.
- The Khazar capital of Atil falls to the Kievan Rus (approximate date)
Asia
- Emperor Reizei ascends to the throne of Japan.
- The Cambodian temple of Banteay Srei is consecrated.
- Li Yixing becomes jiedushi of Dingnan.
- Amber, India is founded as a settlement.
Middle East
Births
- Sigrid Storrada (the Haughty), queen of Sweden and Denmark
- Bolesław I, king of Poland
- Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine
- Louis V, king of France
- Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadhāni, Arab author
- Walter von Speyer, German poet and bishop
- Abusaeid Abolkheir, Persian Sufi
- Khottiga Amoghavarsha, Rashtrakuta warrior
- Vahram Pahlavouni, prince of Bjni and Nik
- Bertha, princess of Burgundy
Deaths
- February 9 – Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo
- Abu al-Faraj Ali, scholar
- Abu 'Ali Muhammad, Ilyasid ruler
- Aleramo di Savona, marquess of Montferrat
- Ashot III, prince of Taron
- Bolesław I, prince of Bohemia
- Hugh II, lord of Lusignan
- Krishna III, Rashtrakuta ruler
- Mu'izz al-Daula, first Buyid emir
- Murakami, emperor of Japan
- Vushmgir, ruler of the Ziyarids
- Wichmann the Younger, Saxon count
- Matilda, Holy Roman Empress
- Leon III, king of Abkhazia
- Hubert, margrave of Tuscany
- Dub mac Maíl Coluim, king of Alba
- Li Cheng, Chinese painter
In popular culture
- Lou Reed makes a reference to this year in the song "Heroin" with the lyric "I wish that I was born a thousand years ago." As this song was released in 1967, he is referring to this year.