980

Year 980 (CMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

980 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	980 CMLXXX
Ab urbe condita	1733
Armenian calendar	429 ԹՎ ՆԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	5730
Balinese saka calendar	901–902
Bengali calendar	386–387
Berber calendar	1930
Buddhist calendar	1524
Burmese calendar	342
Byzantine calendar	6488–6489
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3677 or 3470     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3678 or 3471
Coptic calendar	696–697
Discordian calendar	2146
Ethiopian calendar	972–973
Hebrew calendar	4740–4741
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1036–1037
- Shaka Samvat	901–902
- Kali Yuga	4080–4081
Holocene calendar	10980
Iranian calendar	358–359
Islamic calendar	369–370
Japanese calendar	Tengen 3 (天元３年)
Javanese calendar	881–882
Julian calendar	980 CMLXXX
Korean calendar	3313
Minguo calendar	932 before ROC 民前932年
Nanakshahi calendar	−488
Seleucid era	1291/1292 AG
Thai solar calendar	1522–1523
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 1106 or 725 or −47     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 1107 or 726 or −46

Vladimir I (the Great) (c. 958–1015)

Events

By place

Europe

• Peace is concluded between Emperor Otto II (the Red) and King Lothair III (or Lothair IV) at Margut, ending the Franco-German war of 978–980. Lothair renounces his claim on Lower Lorraine, while Otto promises to recognize Lothair's son Louis V as the rightful heir of the West Frankish Kingdom.
• June 11 – Vladimir I (the Great), grand prince of Kiev, consolidates the Kievan realm from modern Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. Vladimir is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.
• Fall – Otto II sets off on his first expedition to Italy. He leaves the government in the hands of Archchancellor Willigis. Otto is accompanied by his wife, Empress Theophanu.^[1]
• Winter – Otto II celebrates Christmas with his family at Ravenna. He receives the Iron Crown of Lombardy as the King of Italy.
• King Harald Bluetooth orders the construction of the Viking ring fortress of Trelleborg (modern Denmark).

England

• Viking raids from Scandinavia threaten the southern English coast after a pause of 25 years. Hampshire and the Isle of Thanet are ravaged.

Arabian Empire

• The Dari dialect (which will become the major language of Persia) is developed in the royal courts of the Samanid Empire in Central Asia.

Africa

• The Kilwa Sultanate, centered at Kilwa (an island off modern Tanzania), is founded by Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi, Persian prince of Shiraz.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• Notker (or Notger), Frankish Benedictine monk and bishop, founds the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (modern Belgium) which will remain an independent state inside the Holy Roman Empire for more than 800 years.

Births

• July 5 – Mokjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 1009)
• July 15 – Ichijō, emperor of Japan (d. 1011)
• Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Persian scholar (d. 1037)
• Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani, Persian physician (d. 1070)
• Adalbero, German nobleman (approximate date)
• Avicenna, Persian polymath (approximate date)
• Baldwin IV (the Bearded), French nobleman (d. 1035)
• Bardo, German abbot and archbishop (approximate date)
• Benedict VIII, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1024)
• Einar Thambarskelfir, Norwegian nobleman (d. 1050)
• Ekkehard IV, Swiss chronicler (approximate date)
• Farrukhi Sistani, Persian poet (approximate date)
• Geoffrey I, French nobleman (d. 1008)
• Herman I, German nobleman (approximate date)
• Humbert I, founder of the House of Savoy (approximate date)
• Pope Nicholas II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1061)
• Olof Skötkonung, king of Sweden (approximate date)
• Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1002)
• Sviatopolk I, Grand Prince of Kiev (approximate date)
• Tancred of Hauteville, Norman nobleman (d. 1041)
• Theodora Porphyrogenita, Byzantine empress (d. 1056)
• Xuedou Chongxian, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 1052)

Deaths

• February 15 – Berthold, German nobleman (approximate date)
• September 28 – Minamoto no Hiromasa, Japanese nobleman (b. 918)
• Dado (or Dodon), Italian nobleman (approximate date)
• Domnall ua Néill (or Donal O'Neill), High King of Ireland
• Eoghan Ua Cathain, abbot of Clonfert (Ireland)
• Gunnhild, Norwegian Viking queen (approximate date)
• Ibn Khalawayh, Persian scholar and grammar (or 981)
• Liu Chang, emperor of Southern Han (b. 942)
• Yaropolk I, Grand Prince of Kiev (approximate date)