985

Year 985 (CMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

For the higher education development program in China, see Project 985.

985 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	985 CMLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1738
Armenian calendar	434 ԹՎ ՆԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	5735
Balinese saka calendar	906–907
Bengali calendar	391–392
Berber calendar	1935
Buddhist calendar	1529
Burmese calendar	347
Byzantine calendar	6493–6494
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3682 or 3475     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3683 or 3476
Coptic calendar	701–702
Discordian calendar	2151
Ethiopian calendar	977–978
Hebrew calendar	4745–4746
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1041–1042
- Shaka Samvat	906–907
- Kali Yuga	4085–4086
Holocene calendar	10985
Iranian calendar	363–364
Islamic calendar	374–375
Japanese calendar	Eikan 3 / Kanna 1 (寛和元年)
Javanese calendar	886–887
Julian calendar	985 CMLXXXV
Korean calendar	3318
Minguo calendar	927 before ROC 民前927年
Nanakshahi calendar	−483
Seleucid era	1296/1297 AG
Thai solar calendar	1527–1528
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) 1111 or 730 or −42     — to — ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 1112 or 731 or −41

Statue of Lady Wulfrun (c. 935–1005)

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – Henry II (the Wrangler) is restored as duke of Bavaria by Empress Theophanu and her mother-in-law Adelaide at an Hoftag assembly in Rohr (Thuringia). King Otto III (5-years old) remains under the regency of the two empresses in the Holy Roman Empire and in the Kingdom of Italy.^[1]
• Battle of Fýrisvellir: King Eric the Victorious defeats a Swedish Viking army under Styrbjörn the Strong (his nephew) near Uppsala.
• July 6 – The city of Barcelona is sacked by Moorish troops under Al-Mansur, the de facto ruler of Al-Andalus (modern-day Spain).^[2]

England

• Lady Wulfrun, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, is granted land by King Æthelred II (the Unready). She founds Heantune that later becomes the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.^[3]

Asia

• Raja Raja Chola I (considered by many as the greatest emperor of the Chola Empire) becomes ruler of the Chola Dynasty. During his reign he expands his domains beyond South India.

By topic

Exploration

• Greenland is colonized by the Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (according to legend, but has been established as approximately correct – see History of Greenland).

Religion

• July 20 – Anti-Pope Boniface VII dies under suspicious circumstances at Rome. He is succeeded by John XV as the 137th pope of the Catholic Church.
• Amalfitan Benedictines found the only Latin Christian monastery on Mount Athos with the support of John the Iberian. The monastery will last until 1287.

Births

• August 13 – Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (d. 1021)
• Adalbert, margrave of Austria (approximate date)
• Boniface III, margrave of Tuscany (approximate date)
• Gilbert Buatère, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Gisela (or Gizella), queen of Hungary (d. 1065)
• John Gualbert, Italian monk and abbot (d. 1073)
• Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druze
• Maria of Amalfi, Lombard duchess and regent
• Osmond Drengot, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
• Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne (approximate date)
• Radbot, German nobleman (approximate date)
• Rodulfus Glaber, French monk and chronicler (d. 1047)
• Theobald II, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Wazo, bishop of Liège (approximate date)
• Zhao Yuanyan, prince of the Song Dynasty (d. 1044)

Deaths

• January 31 – Ryōgen, Japanese monk and abbot (b. 912)
• June 26 – Ramiro III, king of León (Spain) (b. 961)
• July 20 – Boniface VII, antipope of the Catholic Church^[4]
• August 25 – Dietrich of Haldensleben, German margrave
• Basil Lekapenos, Byzantine chief minister (b. 925)
• Chen Hongjin, Chinese warlord and general (b. 914)
• Herbert III (the Old), Frankish nobleman (b. 910)
• Hywel ap Ieuaf, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
• Judith, duchess regent of Bavaria (b. 925)
• Kishi Joō, Japanese female waka poet (b. 929)
• Marzuban ibn Muhammad, Shaddadid emir
• Muirgus mac Domnaill, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
• Rikdag, margrave of Meissen (Germany)
• Tornike Eristavi, Georgian general and monk
• Harold II (Bluetooth), king of Denmark and Norway