995
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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995 by topic |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 995 CMXCV |
Ab urbe condita | 1748 |
Armenian calendar | 444 ԹՎ ՆԽԴ |
Assyrian calendar | 5745 |
Balinese saka calendar | 916–917 |
Bengali calendar | 402 |
Berber calendar | 1945 |
Buddhist calendar | 1539 |
Burmese calendar | 357 |
Byzantine calendar | 6503–6504 |
Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3692 or 3485 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3693 or 3486 |
Coptic calendar | 711–712 |
Discordian calendar | 2161 |
Ethiopian calendar | 987–988 |
Hebrew calendar | 4755–4756 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1051–1052 |
- Shaka Samvat | 916–917 |
- Kali Yuga | 4095–4096 |
Holocene calendar | 10995 |
Iranian calendar | 373–374 |
Islamic calendar | 384–385 |
Japanese calendar | Shōryaku 6 / Chōtoku 1 (長徳元年) |
Javanese calendar | 896–897 |
Julian calendar | 995 CMXCV |
Korean calendar | 3328 |
Minguo calendar | 917 before ROC 民前917年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −473 |
Seleucid era | 1306/1307 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1537–1538 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1121 or 740 or −32 — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1122 or 741 or −31 |
Year 995 (CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- The Liao Dynasty sends a patent of investiture to the new Goryeo king.
Europe
- Upon the death of Eric the Victorious, he is succeeded by his son Olof Skötkonung, as the first baptized king of Sweden.
- Basil II lifts the siege of Aleppo, by mounting his entire army, and transferring it across Anatolia in sixteen days.
- Constantine III becomes king of Scotland.
- Boleslaus II of Bohemia massacres the Slavnik's dynasty at Libice.
- Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway, and builds the country's first church.
- Aldhun, Bishop of Lindisfarne, moves his episcopal see from Chester-le-Street to Durham in England, to which the remains of Saint Cuthbert (d. 687) are translated.
Births
- Canute the Great (approximate) (d. 1035)
- Guido of Arezzo, Italian musician (d. 1050)
- Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and author (d. 1077)
- Olaf II of Norway (d.1030)
Deaths
- February 5 – William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
- Erik Segersäll, King of Sweden since 970 (b. c. 945)
- Henry II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 951)
- Kenneth II of Scotland (possibly murdered)
- Empress Song (Song dynasty) of China (b. 952)
- Haakon Sigurdsson earl (and de facto ruler) of Norway
- Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin, second ruler of the North African Zirid dynasty