981

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Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades: 950s  960s  970s  - 980s -  990s  1000s  1010s
Years: 978 979 980 - 981 - 982 983 984
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981 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 981
CMLXXXI
Ab urbe condita 1734
Armenian calendar 430
ԹՎ ՆԼ
Bahá'í calendar -863 – -862
Berber calendar 1931
Buddhist calendar 1525
Burmese calendar 343
Chinese calendar 3617/3677-11-23
(庚辰年十一月廿三日)
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3618/3678-12-3
(辛巳年十二月初三日)
Coptic calendar 697 – 698
Ethiopian calendar 973 – 974
Hebrew calendar 4741 – 4742
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1036 – 1037
 - Shaka Samvat 903 – 904
 - Kali Yuga 4082 – 4083
Holocene calendar 10981
Iranian calendar 359 – 360
Islamic calendar 370 – 371
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3314
Thai solar calendar 1524
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[edit] Europe

  • The great viking explorer Eric the Red-haired leaves Norway to survey an island west of Iceland. He finds land and calls it Greenland. Hundreds of land-starved Vikings board longships and head west for this so-called "Greenland."

[edit] Asia

  • The first ever Mahamasthakabhisheka ceremony, of the sacred 57 feet high monolithic statue of Lord Bahubali, is performed.
  • The majestic Gommateshwara statue is built by Chavundaraya of the Western Ganga Dynasty in India.
  • The Bulgarians invade the Byzantine Empire.
  • The first commercially made soap for shaving sells for 3 dirhams (0.3 dinars).

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