970
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century · 10th century · 11th century |
| Decades: | 940s · 950s · 960s · 970s · 980s · 990s · 1000s |
| Years: | 967 · 968 · 969 · 970 · 971 · 972 · 973 |
| 970 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 970 CMLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1723 |
| Armenian calendar | 419 ԹՎ ՆԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5720 |
| Bengali calendar | 377 |
| Berber calendar | 1920 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1514 |
| Burmese calendar | 332 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6478–6479 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3666 or 3606 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3667 or 3607 |
| Coptic calendar | 686–687 |
| Discordian calendar | 2136 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 962–963 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4730–4731 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1026–1027 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 891–892 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4070–4071 |
| Holocene calendar | 10970 |
| Iranian calendar | 348–349 |
| Islamic calendar | 359–360 |
| Japanese calendar | Anna 3 / Tenroku 1 (天禄元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 871–872 |
| Julian calendar | 970 CMLXX |
| Korean calendar | 3303 |
| Minguo calendar | 942 before ROC 民前942年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −498 |
| Seleucid era | 1281/1282 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1512–1513 |
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Year 970 (CMLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
- Construction is completed on Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo (the world's oldest Islamic university).
Asia
Europe
- A devastating decade-long famine begins in France.
- Oldest preserved document (by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) mentioning Leibnitz in Styria (Austria)
- Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from a massive barbarian invasion.
- Eric the Victorious becomes the first king of Sweden.
- Skagul Toste demands the English to pay the very first danegeld.
Births
- Leif Erikson, Norse explorer
- Seyyed Razi, important Muslim scholar and writer
- Sitt al-Mulk
- Xu Daoning, Chinese artist (d. c. 1052) (approximate date).
Deaths
- 30 January – Peter I of Bulgaria
- Magyar leader, Taksány
- Ferdinand II of Castile
- Fujiwara no Saneyori
- García III of Pamplona
- Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz
- Menahem ben Saruq
- Patriarch Polyeuctus of Constantinople
- Taksony of Hungary
References
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