988
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 988 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 988 CMLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1741 |
| Armenian calendar | 437 ԹՎ ՆԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5738 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 909–910 |
| Bengali calendar | 395 |
| Berber calendar | 1938 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1532 |
| Burmese calendar | 350 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6496–6497 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3685 or 3478 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3686 or 3479 |
| Coptic calendar | 704–705 |
| Discordian calendar | 2154 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 980–981 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4748–4749 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1044–1045 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 909–910 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4088–4089 |
| Holocene calendar | 10988 |
| Iranian calendar | 366–367 |
| Islamic calendar | 377–378 |
| Japanese calendar | Eien 2 / Eiso 1 (永祚元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 889–890 |
| Julian calendar | 988 CMLXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3321 |
| Minguo calendar | 924 before ROC 民前924年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −480 |
| Seleucid era | 1299/1300 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1530–1531 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1114 or 733 or −39 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1115 or 734 or −38 |
Year 988 (CMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- The Liao Dynasty adopts civil service examinations in the Southern Chancellery based on Tang Dynasty models.
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
- Borrell II, Count of Barcelona does not renew allegiance to the French king Hugh Capet: he becomes de facto independent count and starts minting its own currency, this will be confirm legally by the treaty of Corbeil (1258). This event is considered the symbolic birth of Catalonia.
By topic
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
Births
- Tilopa, Indian tantric practitioner and mahasiddha