Centuries:	9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades:	950s  960s  970s  - 980s -  990s  1000s  1010s
Years:	980 981 982 - 983 - 984 985 986

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Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

983 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	983 CMLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1736
Armenian calendar	432 ԹՎ ՆԼԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-861 – -860
Berber calendar	1933
Buddhist calendar	1527
Burmese calendar	345
Byzantine calendar	6491 – 6492
Chinese calendar	壬午年十二月十五日 (3619/3679-12-15) — to — 癸未年十一月廿五日 (3620/3680-11-25)
Coptic calendar	699 – 700
Ethiopian calendar	975 – 976
Hebrew calendar	4743 – 4744
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1038 – 1039
- Shaka Samvat	905 – 906
- Kali Yuga	4084 – 4085
Holocene calendar	10983
Iranian calendar	361 – 362
Islamic calendar	372 – 373
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3316
Thai solar calendar	1526
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Events

By Place

Asia

• Wood carvers commissioned by China's Song Dynasty complete a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are produced).
• The reign of Amir Adhad ad-Dowleh of Buwayhid ends.
• Sharaf ad-Dawla becomes Amir Buwayhid.
• The Khazar Empire ends.
• Emperor Shengzong leads a Liao Dynasty expeditionary force against the Zubu.
• One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1,000 volumes of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.

Europe

• Otto III becomes King of Germany following the death of Otto II.
• Veronese donation during the diet of Verona. Otto gifted the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz

By Topic

Religion

• December — Pope John XIV succeeds Pope Benedict VII as the 136th pope.

Births

• Odo II, Count of Blois
• Wulfnoth Cild

Deaths

• Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 'Adud al-Daula
• Pope Benedict VII
• Mu'ayyad al-Daula
• Patriarch Anthony III of Constantinople