994

Year 994 (CMXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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994 by topic
Leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
994 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar994
CMXCIV
Ab urbe condita1747
Armenian calendar443
ԹՎ ՆԽԳ
Assyrian calendar5744
Balinese saka calendar915–916
Bengali calendar401
Berber calendar1944
Buddhist calendar1538
Burmese calendar356
Byzantine calendar6502–6503
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
3691 or 3484
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3692 or 3485
Coptic calendar710–711
Discordian calendar2160
Ethiopian calendar986–987
Hebrew calendar4754–4755
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1050–1051
 - Shaka Samvat915–916
 - Kali Yuga4094–4095
Holocene calendar10994
Iranian calendar372–373
Islamic calendar383–384
Japanese calendarShōryaku 5
(正暦５年)
Javanese calendar895–896
Julian calendar994
CMXCIV
Korean calendar3327
Minguo calendar918 before ROC
民前918年
Nanakshahi calendar−474
Seleucid era1305/1306 AG
Thai solar calendar1536–1537
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1120 or 739 or −33
    — to —
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1121 or 740 or −32
King Otto III (left) and Heribert of Cologne

Events

Byzantine Empire
  • September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: Fatimid forces, under Turkish general Manjutakin (also the governor of Damascus), besiege Apamea (modern Syria). Emperor Basil II sends a Byzantine expeditionary army, led by Dux Michael Bourtzes, to relieve the city in alliance with the Hamdanid Dynasty. Manjutakin defeats the Hamdanids with his forces and attacks the Byzantine force in the rear. The Byzantine army panics and flees, losing some 5,000 men in the process.

Europe
  • June 23 – Viking Age: Danish Viking raiders, (probably) under King Sweyn Forkbeard, plunder the city of Stade (Lower Saxony). Count Lothair Udo I is captured and killed, during the battle with the pirates.[1]
  • September – King Otto III, now 14 years old, receives the regalia to rule the Kingdom of Germany at an assembly of the Imperial Diet in Solingen. Otto appoints Heribert of Cologne as chancellor of Italy.[2]

England
  • A Danish Viking fleet, under Olaf Tryggvason, sails up the Thames Estuary, and besieges London. King Æthelred II (the Unready) pays Olaf 16,000 lbs of silver (Danegeld).[3]
  • Olaf Tryggvason, already a baptised Christian, is confirmed as Christian in a ceremony at Andover. After receiving gifts from Æthelred II, Olaf leaves for Norway.

Astronomy
  • An increase in carbon-14 concentration, recorded in tree rings, suggests that a strong solar storm may have hit the Earth in either 993 or 994.

Births

Deaths
  • February 3 – William IV, duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
  • April 4 – Egbert (the One-Eyed), German nobleman
  • April 23 – Gerard of Toul, German priest and bishop
  • May 11 – Majolus of Cluny, Frankish priest and abbot
  • June 23 – Lothair Udo I, German nobleman (b. 950)
  • June 24 – Abu Isa al-Warraq, Arab scholar (b. 889)
  • July 8 – Richardis, margravine consort of Austria
  • July 10 – Leopold I, margrave of Austria (b. 940)
  • October 28 – Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury
  • October 31 – Wolfgang, bishop of Regensburg
  • Bagrat II, king of Iberia-Kartli (Georgia) (b. 937)
  • Fujiwara no Takamitsu, Japanese waka poet
  • Ibn Juljul, Andalusian physician (approximate date)
  • Sancho Garcés II, king of Navarre (Spain)

References
  1. Reuter, Timothy (1992). Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800-1036, London and New York.
  2. Reuter, Timothy (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 257. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  3. John Haywood (1995). The Historical Atlas of the Vikings: Raids on Æthelred's Kingdom, p. 119. ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
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