995

995 (CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 995th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 995th year of the 1st millennium, the 95th year of the 10th century, and the 6th year of the 990s decade. As of the start of 995, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	960s  970s  980s  – 990s –  1000s  1010s  1020s
Years:	992 993 994 – 995 – 996 997 998

995 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	995 CMXCV
Ab urbe condita	1748
Armenian calendar	444 ԹՎ ՆԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	5745
Balinese saka calendar	916–917
Bengali calendar	402
Berber calendar	1945
Buddhist calendar	1539
Burmese calendar	357
Byzantine calendar	6503–6504
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3691 or 3631     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3692 or 3632
Coptic calendar	711–712
Discordian calendar	2161
Ethiopian calendar	987–988
Hebrew calendar	4755–4756
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1051–1052
- Shaka Samvat	916–917
- Kali Yuga	4095–4096
Holocene calendar	10995
Iranian calendar	373–374
Islamic calendar	384–385
Japanese calendar	Shōryaku 6 / Chōtoku 1 (長徳元年)
Javanese calendar	896–897
Julian calendar	995 CMXCV
Korean calendar	3328
Minguo calendar	917 before ROC 民前917年
Nanakshahi calendar	−473
Seleucid era	1306/1307 AG
Thai solar calendar	1537–1538
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1121 or 740 or −32     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1122 or 741 or −31

Events

• Erik Segersäll is replaces by Olof Skötkonung, the first baptized ruler of Sweden (see Swedish monarchs).
• Basil II lifts the siege of Aleppo by bringing his entire army across Anatolia in sixteen days.
• Constantine III becomes king of Scotland.
• Boleslaus II of Bohemia kills the Slavnik's dynasty at Libice.
• Olaf Tryggvason is made king of Norway and builds the country's first church.

Births

• Canute the Great (approximate) (d. 1035)
• Guido of Arezzo, Italian musician (d. 1050)
• Abolfazl Beyhaghi, Persian historian and writer (d. 1077)
• Olaf II of Norway (d.1030)

Deaths

• February 5 — William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
• Henry II, Duke of Bavaria (b.951)
• Kenneth II of Scotland (possibly murdered)
• Haakon Sigurdsson earl (and de facto ruler) of Norway