| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 984 by topic |
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| Leaders |
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| Gregorian calendar | 984 CMLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1737 |
| Armenian calendar | 433 ԹՎ ՆԼԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5734 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 905–906 |
| Bengali calendar | 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 | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1110 or 729 or −43 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1111 or 730 or −42 |
Year 984 (CMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) 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
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