995
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995 by topic |
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Leaders |
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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) 3691 or 3631 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3692 or 3632 |
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
Byzantine Empire
- Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Basil II launches a counter-campaign against the Fatimid Caliphate. He leads an Byzantine expeditionary army (13,000 men) to aid the Hamdanid emir Sa'id al-Dawla – and crosses Asia Minor in only sixteen days. Basil lifts the siege of Aleppo and takes over the Orontes valley. He incorporates Syria into the Byzantine Empire – including the larger city of Antioch which is the seat of its eponymous Patriarch.[1]
Europe
- King Eric VI (the Victorious) dies at Uppsala after a 25-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Olof Skötkonung as the first baptized ruler of Sweden.
- September 28 – Boleslaus II (the Pious), duke of Bohemia, storms Libice Castle and massacres the members of the Slavník Dynasty.[2]
- Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway (until 1000) and builds the country's first Christian church.
England
- King Kenneth II is murdered at a banquet by Lady Finella in Fettercairn. He is succeeded by his nephew Constantine III (a son of the late King Cuilén) as ruler of Alba (Scotland).
- Uhtred (the Bold), a son of Ealdorman Waltheof I of Northumbria, establishes an episcopal see at Durham and moves the monastic community of Chester-le-Street there.
Asia
- Goryeo-Khitan War: Negotiations led by the Korean diplomat Seo Hui prevents a fullscale invasion of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty. King Seongjong accepts Liao's demands – and agrees to end the alliance with the Chinese Song Dynasty. Goryeo becomes a Liao tributary state, the Khitan army (60,000 men) withdraws while Seongjong orders to strengthen the Korean border defenses.[3]
Births
- Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and writer (d. 1077)
- Cnut (the Great), king of Denmark, Norway and England (d. 1035)
- Dominic Loricatus, Italian priest and hermit (d. 1060)
- Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine (approximate date)
- Herman II, archbishop of Cologne (approximate date)
- Hemma of Gurk, German noblewoman (d. 1045)
- Ogive of Luxembourg, countess of Flanders (d. 1030)
- Olaf II Haraldsson (St. Olaf), king of Norway (d. 1030)
- Reginar V, French nobleman (approximate date)
- Shaykh Tusi, Persian Shia scholar (d. 1067)
- William I, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
Deaths
- March 30 – Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian statesman
- May 10 – Baldwin I (or Boudewijn), bishop of Utrecht
- May 16 – Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese nobleman (b. 953)
- June 13 – Fujiwara no Michikane, Japanese nobleman (b. 961)
- Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad, Afrighid ruler of Khwarezm
- Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiyah
- Bernard I (the Suspicious), Frankish nobleman
- Egill Skallagrímsson, Viking poet (approximate date)
- Eric VI (the Victorious), Viking king of Sweden
- García Fernández, count of Castile and Álava
- Gebhard II, bishop of Constance (b. 949)
- Gerberga of Lorraine, Frankish noblewoman
- Haakon Sigurdsson, Viking ruler (jarl) of Norway
- Henry II (the Wrangler), duke of Bavaria (b. 951)
- Herbert III (the Younger), Frankish nobleman
- Kenneth II (the Fratricide), king of Alba (Scotland)
- Lady Finella, Scottish noblewoman and assassin
- Michitsuna no Haha, Japanese female poet
- Mstivoj, Obodrite prince (approximate date)
- Song, empress of the Song Dynasty (b. 952)
References
- ↑ Read, Piers Paul (1999). The Templars. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 0-297-84267-6.
- ↑ "Boleslaus II the Pious". www.kralovskacesta.cz. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ↑ Twitchett, Denis; Tietze, Klaus-Peter (1994). The Cambridge History of China, Volume 6, pp. 43–153. ISBN 0-521-24331-9.
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