986

Year 986 (CMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
986 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar986
CMLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita1739
Armenian calendar435
ԹՎ ՆԼԵ
Assyrian calendar5736
Balinese saka calendar907–908
Bengali calendar393
Berber calendar1936
Buddhist calendar1530
Burmese calendar348
Byzantine calendar6494–6495
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3683 or 3476
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3684 or 3477
Coptic calendar702–703
Discordian calendar2152
Ethiopian calendar978–979
Hebrew calendar4746–4747
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1042–1043
 - Shaka Samvat907–908
 - Kali Yuga4086–4087
Holocene calendar10986
Iranian calendar364–365
Islamic calendar375–376
Japanese calendarKanna 2
(寛和2年)
Javanese calendar887–888
Julian calendar986
CMLXXXVI
Korean calendar3319
Minguo calendar926 before ROC
民前926年
Nanakshahi calendar−482
Seleucid era1297/1298 AG
Thai solar calendar1528–1529
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
1112 or 731 or −41
     to 
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
1113 or 732 or −40

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • August 17 Battle of the Gates of Trajan: Emperor Basil II leads a Byzantine expeditionary force (30,000 men) against the Bulgarians to capture the fortress city of Sredets. After a siege of 20 days, Basil is forced to retreat from the Sofia Valley towards the town of Ihtiman (through a passage known as the Gate of Trajan). The Bulgarians under Tsar Samuel ambush and defeat the Byzantine forces. Only the elite Varangian Guard escapes with heavy casualties and leads Basil to safety through secondary routes.[1]

Europe

Arabian Empire

  • Winter Sabuktigin, emir of the Ghaznavid Dynasty, invades India. He expands the emirate between the Kabul Valley and the Indus River after defeating King Jayapala.

Asia

  • Emperor Kazan abdicates the throne after a political struggle from the Fujiwara family. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old cousin Ichijō as the 66th emperor (tennō) of Japan.
  • Summer Chi Go Pass Campaign: The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but they are defeated on all fronts.

Exploration

  • Bjarni Herjólfsson, a Norse-Icelandic merchant captain and explorer, becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to discover the mainland of the Americas.

Literature

  • One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished, with a total of 1,000 volumes.

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Zlatarski, History of the Bulgarian state, v. I, ch. 2, pp. 674–675.
  2. Kraemer, Joel L. (1992). Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: The Cultural Revival During the Buyid Age. BRILL. p. 195. ISBN 9789004097360.
  3. David Peter Kirby; Ann Williams; Alfred P. Smyth (1991). A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales, C. 500-c. 1050. Seaby. p. 179.
  4. Murray, Alexander (2002). Reason and Society in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 376.
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