984

984 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	984 CMLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1737
Armenian calendar	433 ԹՎ ՆԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	5734
Balinese saka calendar	905–906
Bengali calendar	390–391
Berber calendar	1934
Buddhist calendar	1528
Burmese calendar	346
Byzantine calendar	6492–6493
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water  Goat) 3681 or 3474     — to — 甲申年 (Wood  Monkey) 3682 or 3475
Coptic calendar	700–701
Discordian calendar	2150
Ethiopian calendar	976–977
Hebrew calendar	4744–4745
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1040–1041
- Shaka Samvat	905–906
- Kali Yuga	4084–4085
Holocene calendar	10984
Iranian calendar	362–363
Islamic calendar	373–374
Japanese calendar	Eikan 2 (永観２年)
Javanese calendar	885–886
Julian calendar	984 CMLXXXIV
Korean calendar	3317
Minguo calendar	928 before ROC 民前928年
Nanakshahi calendar	−484
Seleucid era	1295/1296 AG
Thai solar calendar	1526–1527
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 1110 or 729 or −43     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) 1111 or 730 or −42

Henry II, Duke of Bavaria

Year 984 ( CMLXXXIV ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Spring – German boy-king Otto III (4 years old) is seized by the deposed Henry II, Duke of Bavaria ("the Wrangler"), who has recovered his duchy and claims the regency as a member of the Ottonian Dynasty. But Henry is forced to hand over Otto to his mother, empress consort Theophanu. ^[1]
• King Ramiro III of León loses his throne to Bermudo II (the rival king of Galicia), who also becomes ruler of the entire Kingdom of León (modern-day Spain).

Japan

• Fall – Emperor En'yū abdicates the throne in favor of his 16-year-old son Kazan after a 15-year reign. En'yū retires and becomes a Buddhist priest.

By topic

Technology

• Qiao Weiyue, a Chinese engineer, innovates the first known use of the double-gated canal pound lock during the Song dynasty, for adjusting different water levels in segments of the Grand Canal in China.

Religion

• August 20 – Pope John XIV dies a prisoner in the Castel Sant'Angelo at Rome after a 1-year reign, having either been murdered or starved to death. ^[2]
• Anti-Pope Boniface VII returns from Constantinople and gains support from the powerful Roman Crescentii family. He takes hold of the papal throne.

Births

• Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad, founder of the Abbadid dynasty (d. 1042)
• Choe Chung, Korean Confucian scholar and poet (d. 1068)
• Emma of Normandy, noblewoman, queen consort of England (twice), Denmark and Norway (d. 1052; approximate date)

Deaths

• July 7 – Crescentius the Elder, Roman politician and aristocrat
• July 18 – Dietrich I, bishop of Metz
• August 1 – Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester
• August 20 – John XIV, pope of the Catholic Church
• September 9 – Warin, archbishop of Cologne
• Buluggin ibn Ziri, ruler (emir) of the Zirid Dynasty
• Domnall Claen, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Edith of Wilton, English princess and abbess
• Eochaid Ua Floinn, Irish poet (approximate date)
• Gerberga, Frankish queen (approximate date)
• Jordan, bishop of Poland (or 982)
• Miró III, count of Cerdanya and Besalú (b. 920)
• Ragnhild Eriksdotter, Norse Viking noblewoman
• Shi Shouxin, Chinese general (b. 928)

References

1. Reuter, Timothy (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 256. ISBN   978-0-521-36447-8.
2. Eleanor Shipley Duckett, Death and life in the Tenth Century, (University of Michigan Press, 1967), p. 110.