Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	930s  940s  950s  – 960s –  970s  980s  990s
Years:	957 958 959 – 960 – 961 962 963

960 by topic v • d • e

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

960 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	960 CMLX
Ab urbe condita	1713
Armenian calendar	409 ԹՎ ՆԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-884 – -883
Bengali calendar	367
Berber calendar	1910
Buddhist calendar	1504
Burmese calendar	322
Byzantine calendar	6468 – 6469
Chinese calendar	己未年十一月三十日 (3596/3656-11-30) — to — 庚申年十二月十一日 (3597/3657-12-11)
Coptic calendar	676 – 677
Ethiopian calendar	952 – 953
Hebrew calendar	4720 – 4721
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1015 – 1016
- Shaka Samvat	882 – 883
- Kali Yuga	4061 – 4062
Holocene calendar	10960
Iranian calendar	338 – 339
Islamic calendar	348 – 349
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3293
Thai solar calendar	1503
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• Edgar the Peaceable is crowned King of England. Dunstan becomes Archbishop of Canterbury and Edgar's chief adviser. He reforms monasteries and enforces the rule of Saint Benedict: Poverty, Chastity and Obedience for monks. He attempts to impose celibacy on the secular clergy without noticeable success. Dunstan actively encourages the Danes to integrate with the English.
• Mieszko I becomes ruler in Poland.
• St Dunstan's, Mayfield is founded.
• Richard I of Normandy marries Emma of Paris.
• Sviatoslav I of Kiev conquers the Khazars' imperial power.

[edit] Africa

• The Aksumite Empire is destroyed by pagan invaders under the leadership of Queen Gudit.

[edit] Asia

• The Song Dynasty (960-1279) comes to power in China when Zhao Kuangyin usurps the Later Zhou Dynasty throne.
• The amount of registered soldiers in the Song Chinese army is some 378,000.

[edit] Births

• Aimoin, French chronicler (d. 1010)
• Emperor Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1028)
• Theophanu, Greek princess who became Empress (d. 991)
• Sweyn I of Denmark (d. 1014)
• Gershom ben Judah (d. ??)
• Matsu, Taoist 'goddess' of the sea
• Olof of Sweden (approximate date) (d. 1020–1021)
• Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (d. 988)
• Bagrat III (d. 1014), king of Abkhazians and Georgians
• Seongjong of Goryeo (d. 997)

[edit] Deaths

• Saint Eadburga of Winchester
• Časlav Klonimirović, ruler of Serbia