960
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 930s 940s 950s – 960s – 970s 980s 990s |
| Years: | 957 958 959 – 960 – 961 962 963 |
| 960 by topic | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 960 CMLX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1713 |
| Armenian calendar | 409 ԹՎ ՆԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5710 |
| Bengali calendar | 367 |
| Berber calendar | 1910 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1504 |
| Burmese calendar | 322 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6468–6469 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3656 or 3596 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3657 or 3597 |
| Coptic calendar | 676–677 |
| Discordian calendar | 2126 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 952–953 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4720–4721 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1016–1017 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 882–883 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4061–4062 |
| Holocene calendar | 10960 |
| Iranian calendar | 338–339 |
| Islamic calendar | 348–349 |
| Japanese calendar | Tentoku 4 (天徳４年) |
| Julian calendar | 960 CMLX |
| Korean calendar | 3293 |
| Minguo calendar | 952 before ROC 民前952年 |
| Seleucid era | 1271/1272 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1502–1503 |
Year 960 (CMLX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- September 21 – Dunstan receives the pallium as Archbishop of Canterbury from Pope John XII and becomes chief adviser to the new king of England, Edgar the Peaceful. He reforms monasteries and enforces the rule of Saint Benedict: poverty, chastity and obedience for monks. He attempts to impose celibacy on the secular clergy without noticeable success. Dunstan actively encourages the Danes to integrate with the English. This year he also founds the Church of St. Dunstan, Mayfield in East Sussex.
- Richard I, Duke of Normandy marries Emma of Paris.
- Sviatoslav I of Kiev campaigns against the Khazars.
- Approximate date – Mieszko I becomes ruler in Poland on the death of his father.
Africa
- The Kingdom of Aksum is destroyed by Beta Israel invaders under the leadership of Queen Gudit.
Asia
- February 4 – The Song dynasty begins its 300-year ascendancy in China when Zhao Kuangyin usurps the Later Zhou throne, becoming Emperor Taizu of Song. The number of registered soldiers in the Song Chinese army is some 378,000.
- November 8 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
Births
- March 23 – Mazu, Chinese fisherman's daughter worshipped as Taoist goddess of the sea (d. c.976 or 987)
- Aimoin, French chronicler (d. c.1010)
- Constantine VIII, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1028)
- Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and England (d. 1014)
- Approximate date
- Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (d. 988)
- Bagrat III, king of the Abkhazians and of Georgia (d. 1014)
- Gershom ben Judah, German rabbi (d. 1028–1040)
- Olof of Sweden (d. 1020–1021)[citation needed]
Deaths
- June 15 – Eadburh of Winchester, English princess and saint
- Approximate date – Časlav of Serbia, prince (revenge killing)
