988

988 (CMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 1st millennium, the 88th year of the 10th century, and the 9th year of the 980s decade. As of the start of 988, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

988 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	988 CMLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1741
Armenian calendar	437 ԹՎ ՆԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	5738
Balinese saka calendar	909–910
Bengali calendar	395
Berber calendar	1938
Buddhist calendar	1532
Burmese calendar	350
Byzantine calendar	6496–6497
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3684 or 3624     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3685 or 3625
Coptic calendar	704–705
Discordian calendar	2154
Ethiopian calendar	980–981
Hebrew calendar	4748–4749
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1044–1045
- Shaka Samvat	909–910
- Kali Yuga	4088–4089
Holocene calendar	10988
Iranian calendar	366–367
Islamic calendar	377–378
Japanese calendar	Eien 2 / Eiso 1 (永祚元年)
Javanese calendar	889–890
Julian calendar	988 CMLXXXVIII
Korean calendar	3321
Minguo calendar	924 before ROC 民前924年
Nanakshahi calendar	−480
Seleucid era	1299/1300 AG
Thai solar calendar	1530–1531
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 1114 or 733 or −39     — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 1115 or 734 or −38

Events

• Al-Azhar University is founded in Cairo, Egypt. It is the 2nd oldest university in the world.
• Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev marries Anna, sister of Byzantine emperor Basil II and converts to Christianity. Baptism of Kievan Rus'.
• Abbo becomes abbot at Fleury
• Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin, Ireland) was founded.
• Liao Dynasty adopts civil service examinations in the Southern Chancellery based on Tang Dynasty models.

Births

• King Edmund II of England, English royal (died 1016)
• Tilopa, Indian tantric practitioner and mahasiddha

Deaths

• May 19 – Saint Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)