Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	950s  960s  970s  – 980s –  990s  1000s  1010s
Years:	983 984 985 – 986 – 987 988 989

986 by topic v • d • e

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

986 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	986 CMLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1739
Armenian calendar	435 ԹՎ ՆԼԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-858 – -857
Bengali calendar	393
Berber calendar	1936
Buddhist calendar	1530
Burmese calendar	348
Byzantine calendar	6494 – 6495
Chinese calendar	乙酉年十一月十八日 (3622/3682-11-18) — to — 丙戌年十一月廿八日 (3623/3683-11-28)
Coptic calendar	702 – 703
Ethiopian calendar	978 – 979
Hebrew calendar	4746 – 4747
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1041 – 1042
- Shaka Samvat	908 – 909
- Kali Yuga	4087 – 4088
Holocene calendar	10986
Iranian calendar	364 – 365
Islamic calendar	375 – 376
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3319
Thai solar calendar	1529
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• March 2—Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
• Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark
• Håkon Sigurdsson of Norway defeats the Danish invasion force at Hjørungavåg

[edit] Asia

• Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
• March–July The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but are defeated on all fronts.(Chi go Pass Compaign)
• One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1,000 volumes representing the work of some 2,200 authors.

[edit] Americas

• Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America.

[edit] Births

• Athelstan Aetheling, son of Ethelred the Unready, (d. 1011)

[edit] Deaths

• March 2—Lothair, King of the Franks
• May 25—'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Muslim astronomer
• November 1—Harold I of Denmark
• Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd
• Yang Ye, Chinese general of Song Dynasty