995

Year 995 (CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	970s 980s 990s 1000s 1010s
Years:	992 993 994 995 996 997 998

995 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	995 CMXCV
Ab urbe condita	1748
Armenian calendar	444 ԹՎ ՆԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	5745
Balinese saka calendar	916–917
Bengali calendar	402
Berber calendar	1945
Buddhist calendar	1539
Burmese calendar	357
Byzantine calendar	6503–6504
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3691 or 3631     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3692 or 3632
Coptic calendar	711–712
Discordian calendar	2161
Ethiopian calendar	987–988
Hebrew calendar	4755–4756
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1051–1052
- Shaka Samvat	916–917
- Kali Yuga	4095–4096
Holocene calendar	10995
Iranian calendar	373–374
Islamic calendar	384–385
Japanese calendar	Shōryaku 6 / Chōtoku 1 (長徳元年)
Javanese calendar	896–897
Julian calendar	995 CMXCV
Korean calendar	3328
Minguo calendar	917 before ROC 民前917年
Nanakshahi calendar	−473
Seleucid era	1306/1307 AG
Thai solar calendar	1537–1538
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1121 or 740 or −32     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1122 or 741 or −31

King Kenneth II of Scotland (r. 971–995)

Events

Byzantine Empire

• Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Basil II launches a counter-campaign against the Fatimid Caliphate. He leads a Byzantine expeditionary army (13,000 men) to aid the Hamdanid emir Sa'id al-Dawla – and crosses Asia Minor in only sixteen days. Basil lifts the siege of Aleppo, and takes over the Orontes Valley. He incorporates Syria into the Byzantine Empire (including the larger city of Antioch) which is the seat of its eponymous Patriarch.[1]

Europe

• King Eric VI (the Victorious) dies at Uppsala, after a 25-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Olof Skötkonung, as the first baptized Christian ruler of Sweden.
• September 28 – Boleslaus II (the Pious), duke of Bohemia, storms Libice Castle and massacres the members of the Slavník Dynasty.[2]
• Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway (until 1000) and builds the country's first Christian church.
• Malachy seizes the ring of Thor and captures Dublin for the third time.

Scotland

• King Kenneth II is murdered at a banquet by Lady Finella in Fettercairn. He is succeeded by his nephew Constantine III (a son of the late King Cuilén) as ruler of Alba (Scotland).

England

• Uhtred (the Bold), a son of Ealdorman Waltheof I of Northumbria, establishes an episcopal see at Durham and moves the monastic community of Chester-le-Street there.

Asia

• Goryeo-Khitan War: Negotiations led by the Korean diplomat Seo Hui prevents a fullscale invasion of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty. King Seongjong accepts Liao's demands – and agrees to end the alliance with the Chinese Song Dynasty. Goryeo becomes a Liao tributary state, the Khitan army (60,000 men) withdraws while Seongjong orders the Korean border defenses strengthened.[3]

Armenia

• 995 Balu earthquake. It reportedly affected the Armenian areas of Balu, Cop'k (or Covk'), Palnatun (or Palin), and the districts of Hasteank and Xorjean. The areas affected were districts in what is currently the border area between Armenia and Turkey.[4]

Births

• Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and writer (d. 1077)
• Cnut (the Great), king of Denmark, Norway and England (d. 1035)
• Dominic Loricatus, Italian priest and hermit (d. 1060)
• Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine (approximate date)
• Herman II, archbishop of Cologne (approximate date)
• Hemma of Gurk, German noblewoman (d. 1045)
• Ogive of Luxembourg, countess of Flanders (d. 1030)
• Olaf II Haraldsson (St. Olaf), king of Norway (d. 1030)
• Reginar V, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Shaykh Tusi, Persian Shia scholar (d. 1067)
• William I, Norman nobleman (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 30 – Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian statesman
• May 10 – Baldwin I (or Boudewijn), bishop of Utrecht
• May 16 – Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese nobleman (b. 953)
• June 13 – Fujiwara no Michikane, Japanese nobleman (b. 961)
• Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad, Afrighid ruler of Khwarezm
• Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiyah
• Bernard I (the Suspicious), Frankish nobleman
• Egill Skallagrímsson, Viking poet (approximate date)
• Eric VI (the Victorious), Viking king of Sweden
• García Fernández, count of Castile and Álava
• Gebhard II, bishop of Constance (b. 949)
• Gerberga of Lorraine, Frankish noblewoman
• Haakon Sigurdsson, Viking ruler (jarl) of Norway
• Henry II (the Wrangler), duke of Bavaria (b. 951)
• Herbert III (the Younger), Frankish nobleman
• Kenneth II (the Fratricide), king of Alba (Scotland)
• Lady Finella, Scottish noblewoman and assassin
• Michitsuna no Haha, Japanese female poet
• Mstivoj, Obodrite prince (approximate date)
• Song, empress of the Song Dynasty (b. 952)

References

1. Read, Piers Paul (1999). The Templars. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 0-297-84267-6.
2. "Boleslaus II the Pious". www.kralovskacesta.cz. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
3. Twitchett, Denis; Tietze, Klaus-Peter (1994). The Cambridge History of China, Volume 6, pp. 43–153. ISBN 0-521-24331-9.
4. Guidoboni, Traina, 1995, p. 126-127

Sources

• Guidoboni, Emanuela; Traina, Giusto (1995), A new catalogue of earthquakes in the historical Armenian area from antiquity to the 12th century, Annals of Geophysics