960

960 (CMLX) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 1st millennium, the 60th year of the 10th century, and the 1st year of the 960s decade. As of the start of 960, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

960 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	960 CMLX
Ab urbe condita	1713
Armenian calendar	409 ԹՎ ՆԹ
Assyrian calendar	5710
Balinese saka calendar	881–882
Bengali calendar	367
Berber calendar	1910
Buddhist calendar	1504
Burmese calendar	322
Byzantine calendar	6468–6469
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 3656 or 3596     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3657 or 3597
Coptic calendar	676–677
Discordian calendar	2126
Ethiopian calendar	952–953
Hebrew calendar	4720–4721
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1016–1017
- Shaka Samvat	881–882
- Kali Yuga	4060–4061
Holocene calendar	10960
Iranian calendar	338–339
Islamic calendar	348–349
Japanese calendar	Tentoku 4 (天徳４年)
Javanese calendar	860–861
Julian calendar	960 CMLX
Korean calendar	3293
Minguo calendar	952 before ROC 民前952年
Nanakshahi calendar	−508
Seleucid era	1271/1272 AG
Thai solar calendar	1502–1503
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 1086 or 705 or −67     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 1087 or 706 or −66

Events

• Mieszko I becomes ruler in Poland
• Richard I of Normandy marries Emma of Paris
• The Aksumite Empire is destroyed

Births

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

Deaths

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