994
year
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994 (CMXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 994th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 994th year of the 1st millennium, the 94th year of the 10th century, and the 5th year of the 990s decade. As of the start of 994, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
Decades: | 960s 970s 980s – 990s – 1000s 1010s 1020s |
Years: | 991 992 993 – 994 – 995 996 997 |
Gregorian calendar | 994 CMXCIV |
Ab urbe condita | 1747 |
Armenian calendar | 443 ԹՎ ՆԽԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 5744 |
Balinese saka calendar | 915–916 |
Bengali calendar | 401 |
Berber calendar | 1944 |
Buddhist calendar | 1538 |
Burmese calendar | 356 |
Byzantine calendar | 6502–6503 |
Chinese calendar | 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3690 or 3630 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3691 or 3631 |
Coptic calendar | 710–711 |
Discordian calendar | 2160 |
Ethiopian calendar | 986–987 |
Hebrew calendar | 4754–4755 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1050–1051 |
- Shaka Samvat | 915–916 |
- Kali Yuga | 4094–4095 |
Holocene calendar | 10994 |
Iranian calendar | 372–373 |
Islamic calendar | 383–384 |
Japanese calendar | Shōryaku 5 (正暦5年) |
Javanese calendar | 895–896 |
Julian calendar | 994 CMXCIV |
Korean calendar | 3327 |
Minguo calendar | 918 before ROC 民前918年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −474 |
Seleucid era | 1305/1306 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1536–1537 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1120 or 739 or −33 — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1121 or 740 or −32 |
Events
changeBy place
changeEurope
change- Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty.
- Otto III reaches his majority and begins to rule Germany.
- Aethelred II pays £16,000 of Danegeld to Olaf Trygvasson.
Middle East
change- September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: Fatimid victory over a Byzantine army led by Michael Bourtzes
Births
change- November 7 – Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
- Simeon, first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey
- Imam Bayhaqi Scholar of Islamic Faith
Deaths
change- Margrave Leopold I of Austria
- Sigeric the Serious
- John Weir the Great, King of the Nords