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978 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 978
CMLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita 1731
Armenian calendar 427
ԹՎ ՆԻԷ
Assyrian calendar 5728
Balinese saka calendar 899–900
Bengali calendar 384–385
Berber calendar 1928
Buddhist calendar 1522
Burmese calendar 340
Byzantine calendar 6486–6487
Chinese calendar 丁丑年 (Fire  Ox)
3675 or 3468
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth  Tiger)
3676 or 3469
Coptic calendar 694–695
Discordian calendar 2144
Ethiopian calendar 970–971
Hebrew calendar 4738–4739
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1034–1035
 - Shaka Samvat 899–900
 - Kali Yuga 4078–4079
Holocene calendar 10978
Iranian calendar 356–357
Islamic calendar 367–368
Japanese calendar Jōgen 3 / Tengen 1
(天元元年)
Javanese calendar 879–880
Julian calendar 978
CMLXXVIII
Korean calendar 3311
Minguo calendar 934 before ROC
民前934年
Nanakshahi calendar −490
Seleucid era 1289/1290 AG
Thai solar calendar 1520–1521
Tibetan calendar 阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1104 or 723 or −49
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1105 or 724 or −48
AEthelred II (the Unready) (c. 966-1016) Ethelred the Unready.jpg
Æthelred II (the Unready) (c. 966–1016)

Year 978 ( CMLXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe

England

China

  • June 9 King Qian Chu surrenders his territories and pledges allegiance to the Song Dynasty, saving his people from war and economic destruction. Qian Chu remains ruler and moves 3,000 members of his household to Bianjing (modern-day Kaifeng). Wuyue is absorbed into the Song Dynasty, effectively ending the kingdom.

By topic

Literature

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Reuter, Timothy (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 254. ISBN   978-0-521-36447-8.
  2. David Michael Metcalf (1998). An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coin Finds, C.973-1086. Royal Numismatic Society. p. 105. ISBN   978-1-85444-110-2.
  3. John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1995). A History of the Russian Church to 1448. Longman. p. 32. ISBN   978-0-582-08068-3.