995
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century · 10th century · 11th century |
| Decades: | 960s · 970s · 980s · 990s · 1000s · 1010s · 1020s |
| Years: | 992 · 993 · 994 · 995 · 996 · 997 · 998 |
| 995 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 995 CMXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1748 |
| Armenian calendar | 444 ԹՎ ՆԽԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5745 |
| Bengali calendar | 402 |
| Berber calendar | 1945 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1539 |
| Burmese calendar | 357 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6503–6504 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3691 or 3631 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3692 or 3632 |
| Coptic calendar | 711–712 |
| Discordian calendar | 2161 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 987–988 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4755–4756 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1051–1052 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 916–917 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4095–4096 |
| Holocene calendar | 10995 |
| Iranian calendar | 373–374 |
| Islamic calendar | 384–385 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōryaku 6 / Chōtoku 1 (長徳元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 896–897 |
| Julian calendar | 995 CMXCV |
| Korean calendar | 3328 |
| Minguo calendar | 917 before ROC 民前917年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −473 |
| Seleucid era | 1306/1307 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1537–1538 |
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Year 995 (CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- The Liao Dynasty sends a patent of investiture to the new Goryeo king.
Europe
- Upon the death of Eric the Victorious, he is succeeded by his son Olof Skötkonung as the first baptized king of Sweden.
- Basil II lifts the siege of Aleppo by mounting his entire army and transferring it across Anatolia in sixteen days.
- Constantine III becomes king of Scotland.
- Boleslaus II of Bohemia massacres the Slavnik's dynasty at Libice.
- Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway and builds the country's first church.
- Aldhun, Bishop of Lindisfarne, moves his episcopal see from Chester-le-Street to Durham in England, to which the remains of Saint Cuthbert (d. 687) are translated.
Births
- Canute the Great (approximate) (d. 1035)
- Guido of Arezzo, Italian musician (d. 1050)
- Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and author (d. 1077)
- Olaf II of Norway (d.1030)
Deaths
- February 5 – William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
- Erik Segersäll, King of Sweden since 970 (b. c. 945)
- Henry II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 951)
- Kenneth II of Scotland (possibly murdered)
- Haakon Sigurdsson earl (and de facto ruler) of Norway
- Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin, second ruler of the North African Zirid dynasty.
References
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