Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	940s  950s  960s  – 970s –  980s  990s  1000s
Years:	967 968 969 – 970 – 971 972 973

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Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

970 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	970 CMLXX
Ab urbe condita	1723
Armenian calendar	419 ԹՎ ՆԺԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-874 – -873
Bengali calendar	377
Berber calendar	1920
Buddhist calendar	1514
Burmese calendar	332
Byzantine calendar	6478 – 6479
Chinese calendar	己巳年十一月廿一日 (3606/3666-11-21) — to — 庚午年十二月初一日 (3607/3667-12-1)
Coptic calendar	686 – 687
Ethiopian calendar	962 – 963
Hebrew calendar	4730 – 4731
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1025 – 1026
- Shaka Samvat	892 – 893
- Kali Yuga	4071 – 4072
Holocene calendar	10970
Iranian calendar	348 – 349
Islamic calendar	359 – 360
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3303
Thai solar calendar	1513
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970 was a year in the 10th century.

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Asia

• A major volcano erupts in Mashu, Japan.

[edit] Europe

• A devastating decade-long famine begins in France.
• Oldest preserved document (by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) mentioning Leibnitz in Styria (Austria)
• Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from a massive barbarian invasion.

[edit] Africa

• Construction is completed on Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo (the world's oldest Islamic university).

[edit] Births

• Leif Ericson, Norse explorer
• Seyyed Razi, important Muslim scholar and writer
• Sitt al-Mulk
• Xu Daoning, Chinese artist (d. c. 1052) (approximate date).

[edit] Deaths

• Magyar leader, Taksány
• Ferdinand II of Castile
• Fujiwara no Saneyori
• García III of Pamplona
• Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz
• Menahem ben Saruq
• Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
• Taksony of Hungary