986
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In the year 986
Earth science
Bjarni Herjolfsson, sailing from Iceland to Greenland, gets lost and sights the Americas, but does not land; eventually he finds Greenland. See also 982 Earth science; 1001 Earth science.
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This article is about the year 986.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 950s 960s 970s – 980s – 990s 1000s 1010s |
| Years: | 983 984 985 – 986 – 987 988 989 |
| 986 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 986 CMLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1739 |
| Armenian calendar | 435 ԹՎ ՆԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5736 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -858–-857 |
| Bengali calendar | 393 |
| Berber calendar | 1936 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1530 |
| Burmese calendar | 348 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6494–6495 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年十一月十八日 (3622/3682-11-18) — to —
丙戌年十一月廿八日(3623/3683-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 702–703 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 978–979 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4746–4747 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1042–1043 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 908–909 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4087–4088 |
| Holocene calendar | 10986 |
| Iranian calendar | 364–365 |
| Islamic calendar | 375–376 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 986 CMLXXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3319 |
| Minguo calendar | 926 before ROC 民前926年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1529 |
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Year 986 (CMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- March 2 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- The de facto ruler of al-Andalus, al-Mansur, continues his effort in the north of the Iberian peninsula, he takes and sacks Coimbra (following this episod the city is said to have remained deserted for six years).
- Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark.
- Håkon Sigurdsson of Norway defeats the Danish invasion force at Hjørungavåg.
Asia
- Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
- March–July – The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but are defeated on all fronts.(Chi go Pass Compaign)
- One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1,000 volumes representing the work of some 2,200 authors.
America
- Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America.
Births
- Athelstan Aetheling, son of Ethelred the Unready, (d. 1011)
Deaths
- March 2 – Lothair, King of the Franks
- May 25 – 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Muslim astronomer
- November 1 – Harold I of Denmark
- Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd
- Yang Ye, Chinese general of Song Dynasty
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Louis V
(king of France)
Gott der Weltschöpfer ("Zu Gott"), quartet for mixed voices & piano, D. 986 (Op. 112/2)
(Classical Work)
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