985

For the higher education development program in China, see Project 985.

Calendar year

Years

Millennium
1st millennium
Centuries

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

Decades

* 960s
* 970s
* 980s
* 990s
* 1000s

Years

* 982
* 983
* 984
* 985
* 986
* 987
* 988

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985 by topic

Leaders

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* State leaders
* Religious leaders

Categories

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985 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 985
CMLXXXV

|

Ab urbe condita| 1738
Armenian calendar| 434
ԹՎ ՆԼԴ
Assyrian calendar| 5735
Balinese saka calendar| 906–907
Bengali calendar| 391–392
Berber calendar| 1935
Buddhist calendar| 1529
Burmese calendar| 347
Byzantine calendar| 6493–6494
Chinese calendar| 甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3682 or 3475
— to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3683 or 3476
Coptic calendar| 701–702
Discordian calendar| 2151
Ethiopian calendar| 977–978
Hebrew calendar| 4745–4746
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1041–1042
\- Shaka Samvat| 906–907
\- Kali Yuga| 4085–4086
Holocene calendar| 10985
Iranian calendar| 363–364
Islamic calendar| 374–375
Japanese calendar| Eikan 3 / Kanna 1
(寛和元年)
Javanese calendar| 886–887
Julian calendar| 985
CMLXXXV
Korean calendar| 3318
Minguo calendar| 927 before ROC
民前927年
Nanakshahi calendar| −483
Seleucid era| 1296/1297 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1527–1528
Tibetan calendar| ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Monkey)
1111 or 730 or −42
— to —
ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Wood-Bird)
1112 or 731 or −41
Statue of Lady Wulfrun (c. 935–1005)

Year 985 (CMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

## Events

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### By place

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#### Europe

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* Summer – Henry II (the Wrangler) is restored as duke of Bavaria by Empress Theophanu and her mother-in-law Adelaide at an Hoftag assembly in Rohr (Thuringia). King Otto III (5-years old) remains under the regency of the two empresses in the Holy Roman Empire and in the Kingdom of Italy.[1]
* Battle of Fýrisvellir: King Eric the Victorious defeats a Swedish Viking army under Styrbjörn the Strong (his nephew) near Uppsala.
* July 6 – The city of Barcelona is sacked by Moorish troops under Al-Mansur, the de facto ruler of Al-Andalus (modern-day Spain).[2]

#### England

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* Lady Wulfrun, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, is granted land by King Æthelred II (the Unready). She founds Heantune that later becomes the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.[3]

#### Asia

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* Raja Raja Chola I (considered by many as the greatest emperor of the Chola Empire) becomes ruler of the Chola Dynasty. During his reign he expands his domains beyond South India.

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#### Exploration

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* Greenland is colonized by the Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (according to legend, but has been established as approximately correct – see History of Greenland).

#### Religion

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* July 20 – Anti-Pope Boniface VII dies under suspicious circumstances at Rome. He is succeeded by John XV as the 137th pope of the Catholic Church.
* Amalfitan Benedictines found the only Latin Christian monastery on Mount Athos with the support of John the Iberian. The monastery will last until 1287.

## Births

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* August 13 – Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (d. 1021)
* Adalbert, margrave of Austria (approximate date)
* Boniface III, margrave of Tuscany (approximate date)
* Gilbert Buatère, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
* Gisela (or Gizella), queen of Hungary (d. 1065)
* John Gualbert, Italian monk and abbot (d. 1073)
* Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druze
* Maria of Amalfi, Lombard duchess and regent
* Osmond Drengot, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
* Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne (approximate date)
* Radbot, German nobleman (approximate date)
* Rodulfus Glaber, French monk and chronicler (d. 1047)
* Theobald II, French nobleman (approximate date)
* Wazo, bishop of Liège (approximate date)
* Zhao Yuanyan, prince of the Song Dynasty (d. 1044)

## Deaths

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* January 31 – Ryōgen, Japanese monk and abbot (b. 912)
* June 26 – Ramiro III, king of León (Spain) (b. 961)
* July 20 – Boniface VII, antipope of the Catholic Church[4]
* August 25 – Dietrich of Haldensleben, German margrave
* Basil Lekapenos, Byzantine chief minister (b. 925)
* Chen Hongjin, Chinese warlord and general (b. 914)
* Herbert III (the Old), Frankish nobleman (b. 910)
* Hywel ap Ieuaf, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
* Judith, duchess regent of Bavaria (b. 925)
* Kishi Joō, Japanese female waka poet (b. 929)
* Marzuban ibn Muhammad, Shaddadid emir
* Muirgus mac Domnaill, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
* Rikdag, margrave of Meissen (Germany)
* Tornike Eristavi, Georgian general and monk
* Harold II (Bluetooth), king of Denmark and Norway

## References

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1. ^ Reuter, Timothy (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 256. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
2. ^ Boissonade, B. (1934). "Les premières croisades françaises en Espagne. Normands, Gascons, Aquitains et Bourguignons (1018-1032)". Bulletin Hispanique. 36 (1): 5–28\. doi:10.3406/hispa.1934.2607.
3. ^ "Lady Wulfruna c. 935-1005, Founder of the City". Wolverhampton City Council. Archived from the original on April 23, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
4. ^ "Boniface VII". Oxford Reference. Retrieved January 2, 2022.

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