977
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 940s 950s 960s – 970s – 980s 990s 1000s |
| Years: | 974 975 976 – 977 – 978 979 980 |
| 977 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 977 CMLXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1730 |
| Armenian calendar | 426 ԹՎ ՆԻԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5727 |
| Bengali calendar | 384 |
| Berber calendar | 1927 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1521 |
| Burmese calendar | 339 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6485–6486 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3673 or 3613 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3674 or 3614 |
| Coptic calendar | 693–694 |
| Discordian calendar | 2143 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 969–970 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4737–4738 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1033–1034 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 899–900 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4078–4079 |
| Holocene calendar | 10977 |
| Iranian calendar | 355–356 |
| Islamic calendar | 366–367 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgen 2 (貞元２年) |
| Julian calendar | 977 CMLXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3310 |
| Minguo calendar | 935 before ROC 民前935年 |
| Seleucid era | 1288/1289 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1519–1520 |
Year 977 (CMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester, rebuilds the western end of the Old Minster, Winchester, with twin towers and no apses.
- German emperor Otto II grants Lower Lorraine, where modern-day Brussels is located, to Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, illegitimate son of King Louis IV of France.
- King Kenneth II of Scotland kills Amlaíb, brother of King Culen, to establish himself as Culen's successor.
Asia
- The original Imam Ali Mosque is built at Najaf, Iraq by the Buyid ruler 'Adud al-Dawla.
- The Hamdanid emir Sa'd al-Dawla recovers his capital, Aleppo, from the ghulam Bakjur, who receives the governorship of Homs as compensation.
Births
- Kōkei, eminent Japanese Buddhist monk
- Saint Poppo of Deinze
Deaths
- Hunain ibn Ishaq, Egyptian physician
- Doubravka of Bohemia, daughter of Duke Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia and wife of Mieszko I of Poland
- Fujiwara no Kanemichi, a kugyo of the Heian period of Japan who served as Kampaku
- Peter, Byzantine eunuch general
