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This article is about the year. For the number, see 999 (number).

For the British emergency telephone number, see 999 (emergency telephone number).

For other uses, see 999 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	960s 970s 980s – 990s – 1000s 1010s 1020s
Years:	996 997 998 – 999 – 1000 1001 1002

Year 999 (CMXCIX) was a common year of the Julian Calendar.

999 by topic v • d • e
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

**999 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	999 CMXCIX
Ab urbe condita	1752
Armenian calendar	448 ԹՎ ՆԽԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-845 – -844
Berber calendar	1949
Buddhist calendar	1543
Burmese calendar	361
Byzantine calendar	6507 – 6508
Chinese calendar	戊戌年十二月十一日 (3635/3695-12-11) — to — 己亥年十一月廿一日 (3636/3696-11-21)
Coptic calendar	715 – 716
Ethiopian calendar	991 – 992
Hebrew calendar	4759 – 4760
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1054 – 1055
- Shaka Samvat	921 – 922
- Kali Yuga	4100 – 4101
Holocene calendar	10999
Iranian calendar	377 – 378
Islamic calendar	389 – 390
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3332
Thai solar calendar	1542
v • d • e

Events

By place

Europe

Silesia is incorporated into territory ruled by Boleslaus I of Poland.
The Orsay commune is founded.

By topic

Religion

April 2—Gerbert of Aurillac becomes Pope Silvester II and succeeds Pope Gregory V as the 139th pope.
Sigmundur Brestisson introduces Christianity in the Faroe Islands.
Christianity is adopted in Iceland.

Births

Bao Qingtian, Chinese magistrate and mayor of Kaifeng (d. 1062)

Deaths

February 7—Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia
February 18—Pope Gregory V
December 16—Saint Adelaide of Italy (b. 931)
December – Elisabeth of Vendôme, wife of Fulk III of Anjou (aka Fulk the Black)
Maredudd ab Owain, King of Gwynedd

Mathematics

Dividing 999 by (999-1) gives an interesting sequence of numbers: 1.001002004008016032064128256513 Each block of three digits is a power of 2, with the block size being the same size as the digits in the numerator and denominator.

References

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