Centuries:	9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades:	940s  950s  960s  - 970s -  980s  990s  1000s
Years:	971 972 973 - 974 - 975 976 977

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

974 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	974 CMLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1727
Armenian calendar	423 ԹՎ ՆԻԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-870 – -869
Berber calendar	1924
Buddhist calendar	1518
Burmese calendar	336
Byzantine calendar	6482 – 6483
Chinese calendar	癸酉年十二月初五日 (3610/3670-12-5) — to — 甲戌年十一月十五日 (3611/3671-11-15)
Coptic calendar	690 – 691
Ethiopian calendar	966 – 967
Hebrew calendar	4734 – 4735
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1029 – 1030
- Shaka Samvat	896 – 897
- Kali Yuga	4075 – 4076
Holocene calendar	10974
Iranian calendar	352 – 353
Islamic calendar	363 – 364
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3307
Thai solar calendar	1517
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Events

By Place

Africa

• The Carmathians are defeated in Egypt by Jawhar as-Siqilli; Fatimid rule is consolidated there.

Asia

• The Byzantine Empire retakes Syria (including Aleppo) from the Abbasids.
• Al-Ta'i succeeds Al-Muti as Abbasid caliph of Baghdad.
• Fuzhou builds new city walls.
• The Liao Dynasty exchanges ambassadors with the Song Dynasty.
• In their offensive against the Southern Tang state, the Song Dynasty Chinese create and defend a long floating pontoon bridge across the Yangzi River, to secure military supply lines traveling to the other side.

By Topic

Religion

• October — Pope Benedict VII succeeds Pope Benedict VI as the 135th pope.
• Antipope Boniface VII is declared pope.
• Benedictine Abbey in England is founded.
• An abbey is founded at the site of Mönchengladbach.

Births

Deaths

• Pope Benedict VI
• Ratherius of Verona