976
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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976 by topic |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 976 CMLXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1729 |
Armenian calendar | 425 ԹՎ ՆԻԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 5726 |
Balinese saka calendar | 897–898 |
Bengali calendar | 383 |
Berber calendar | 1926 |
Buddhist calendar | 1520 |
Burmese calendar | 338 |
Byzantine calendar | 6484–6485 |
Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3673 or 3466 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3674 or 3467 |
Coptic calendar | 692–693 |
Discordian calendar | 2142 |
Ethiopian calendar | 968–969 |
Hebrew calendar | 4736–4737 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1032–1033 |
- Shaka Samvat | 897–898 |
- Kali Yuga | 4076–4077 |
Holocene calendar | 10976 |
Iranian calendar | 354–355 |
Islamic calendar | 365–366 |
Japanese calendar | Ten'en 4 / Jōgen 1 (貞元元年) |
Javanese calendar | 877–878 |
Julian calendar | 976 CMLXXVI |
Korean calendar | 3309 |
Minguo calendar | 936 before ROC 民前936年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −492 |
Seleucid era | 1287/1288 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1518–1519 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1102 or 721 or −51 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1103 or 722 or −50 |
Year 976 (CMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- January 10 – Basil II becomes Eastern Roman Emperor (see Byzantine Emperors).
Europe
- Brian Boru is inaugurated as King of Munster.
- Samuil of Bulgaria starts his reign as Tsar.
- Leopold of Babenberg is appointed as Margrave of Austria. The Babenberg family rules Austria until 1246.
Asia
- The Yuelu Academy is founded during the early Song Dynasty of China.
- Zhang Sixun, a Chinese astronomer and engineer, employs the use of liquid mercury in order for the escapement mechanism of his astronomical clock to function and for metal parts not to rust by using hydraulics (water) or to freeze in winter.
Births
Deaths
- January 10 – John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine Emperor
- October 8 – Jelena of Zadar, Queen of Croatia
- November 14 – Emperor Taizu of Song
- Harald Greyhide, King of Norway
- Al-Hakam II, Caliph of Cordoba