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Calendar year

Years

Millennium
1st millennium
Centuries

* 9th century
* 10th century
* 11th century

Decades

* 950s
* 960s
* 970s
* 980s
* 990s

Years

* 972
* 973
* 974
* 975
* 976
* 977
* 978

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975 by topic

Leaders

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* State leaders
* Religious leaders

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975 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 975
CMLXXV

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Ab urbe condita| 1728
Armenian calendar| 424
ԹՎ ՆԻԴ
Assyrian calendar| 5725
Balinese saka calendar| 896–897
Bengali calendar| 381–382
Berber calendar| 1925
Buddhist calendar| 1519
Burmese calendar| 337
Byzantine calendar| 6483–6484
Chinese calendar| 甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
3672 or 3465
— to —
乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
3673 or 3466
Coptic calendar| 691–692
Discordian calendar| 2141
Ethiopian calendar| 967–968
Hebrew calendar| 4735–4736
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1031–1032
\- Shaka Samvat| 896–897
\- Kali Yuga| 4075–4076
Holocene calendar| 10975
Iranian calendar| 353–354
Islamic calendar| 364–365
Japanese calendar| Ten'en 3
(天延３年)
Javanese calendar| 876–877
Julian calendar| 975
CMLXXV
Korean calendar| 3308
Minguo calendar| 937 before ROC
民前937年
Nanakshahi calendar| −493
Seleucid era| 1286/1287 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1517–1518
Tibetan calendar| ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dog)
1101 or 720 or −52
— to —
ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Boar)
1102 or 721 or −51
King Edward II (the Martyr) (c. 962–978)

Year 975 (CMLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

## Events

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### By place

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#### Byzantine Empire

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* Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor John I raids Mesopotamia and invades Syria, using the Byzantine base at Antioch to press southwards to Tripoli. He conquers the cities of Baalbek, Damascus, Sidon, Tiberias and Caesarea, but fails to take Jerusalem.[1]

#### Europe

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* October 15 - Oberto I (Obizzo), an Italian count palatine, dies. The Marca Obertenga (Eastern Liguria) is divided among the Obertenghi family.
* Emperor Otto II (the Red) leads a punitive expedition against Boleslaus II, duke of Bohemia (approximate date).

#### England

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* July 8 - King Edgar I (the Peaceful) dies at Winchester after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 12-year-old son Edward II (the Martyr) as ruler of England.

#### Africa

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* December 21 - Caliph Al-Mu'izz dies in Egypt after a 22-year reign in which he has extended his realm from Sicily to the Atlantic. He is succeeded by his son Al-Aziz Billah as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate.

#### China

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* Emperor Taizu conquers Hunan Province and brings the power of the military under Song control. Ending the era of the warlords (approximate date).

### By topic

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#### Religion

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* March - Otto II appoints his archchancellor Willigis as archbishop of Mainz. He receives the pallium from Pope Benedict VII.

## Births

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* July 25 - Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg (d. 1018)
* Adalbold II, bishop of Utrecht (d. 1026)
* Amadeus I, count of Savoy (approximate date)
* Bouchard II, French nobleman (d. 1020)
* Conrad I, German nobleman (d. 1011)
* Cunigunde, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1040)
* Elijah, bishop of Beth Nuhadra (d. 1046)
* Gerard I, bishop of Cambrai (approximate date)
* Gero II, German nobleman (d. 1015)
* Guo, empress of the Song Dynasty (d. 1007)
* Hugh of Chalon, French bishop (approximate date)
* Izumi Shikibu, Japanese poet (approximate date)
* Oldřich, duke of Bohemia (approximate date)
* Sophia I, German princess and abbess (d. 1039)[2]
* Stephen I, king of Hungary (approximate date)

## Deaths

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* June 28
* Cyneweard, bishop of Wells (Somerset)
* Thurcytel, abbot of Crowland (approximate date)
* July 4 - Gwangjong (Wang So), Korean king (b. 925)
* July 8 - Edgar I (the Peaceful), king of England
* July 31 - Fu Yanqing, Chinese general (b. 898)
* October 15 - Oberto I, Italian count palatine
* November 12 - Notker Physicus, Swiss painter
* November 26 - Conrad, bishop of Constance
* December 21 - Al-Mu'izz, Fatimid caliph (b. 932)
* December 27 - Balderic, bishop of Utrecht (b. 897)
* Bilgetegin, Samanid officer and governor
* Cináed ua hArtacáin, Irish Gaelic poet
* Dyfnwal ab Owain, king of Strathclyde
* Gu Hongzhong, Chinese painter (b. 937)
* Master Geng, Chinese alchemist
* Olof II, king of Sweden (approximate date)
* Theobald I, Frankish nobleman (b. 913)
* Wynsige (or Wynsy), bishop of Lichfield
* Yongming Yanshou, Chinese Zen master (b. 904)

## References

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1. ^ Brian Todd Carey (2012). Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare 527–1071, p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84884-215-1.
2. ^ McGrath, Alister E. (2013). Christian History: An Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. p. 104\. ISBN 9781118337790.

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