986

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Centuries:	9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades:	950s  960s  970s  - 980s -  990s  1000s  1010s
Years:	983 984 985 - 986 - 987 988 989

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986 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	986 CMLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1739
Armenian calendar	435 ԹՎ ՆԼԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-858 – -857
Berber calendar	1936
Buddhist calendar	1530
Burmese calendar	348
Chinese calendar	3622/3682-11-18 (乙酉年十一月十八日) — to — 3623/3683-11-28 (丙戌年十一月廿八日)
Coptic calendar	702 – 703
Ethiopian calendar	978 – 979
Hebrew calendar	4746 – 4747
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1041 – 1042
- Shaka Samvat	908 – 909
- Kali Yuga	4087 – 4088
Holocene calendar	10986
Iranian calendar	364 – 365
Islamic calendar	375 – 376
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3319
Thai solar calendar	1529
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[edit] Events

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[edit] Europe

• March 2 — Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
• Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark
• Håkon Sigurdsson of Norway defeats the Danish invasion force at Hjørungavåg

[edit] Asia

• Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
• The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but are defeated on all fronts.
• One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopdia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1,000 volumes representing the work of some 2,200 authors.

[edit] Americas

• Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• March 2 — Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
• May 25 — 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Muslim astronomer
• November 1 — Harold I of Denmark
• Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd
• Yang Ye, Chinese general of Song Dynasty