967

Year 967 (CMLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
967 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar967
CMLXVII
Ab urbe condita1720
Armenian calendar416
ԹՎ ՆԺԶ
Assyrian calendar5717
Balinese saka calendar888–889
Bengali calendar374
Berber calendar1917
Buddhist calendar1511
Burmese calendar329
Byzantine calendar6475–6476
Chinese calendar丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
3663 or 3603
     to 
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3664 or 3604
Coptic calendar683–684
Discordian calendar2133
Ethiopian calendar959–960
Hebrew calendar4727–4728
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1023–1024
 - Shaka Samvat888–889
 - Kali Yuga4067–4068
Holocene calendar10967
Iranian calendar345–346
Islamic calendar356–357
Japanese calendarKōhō 4
(康保4年)
Javanese calendar867–868
Julian calendar967
CMLXVII
Korean calendar3300
Minguo calendar945 before ROC
民前945年
Nanakshahi calendar−501
Seleucid era1278/1279 AG
Thai solar calendar1509–1510
Tibetan calendar阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
1093 or 712 or −60
     to 
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1094 or 713 or −59
Emperor Murakami (926–967)

Events

Europe

  • Spring Emperor Otto I (the Great) calls for a council at Rome, to present the new government under Pope John XIII. He asserts his rights in the city, and insists on the occasional presence of an imperial judge, alongside the papal court. The era of Roman independence is over. Grado becomes the patriarchal and metropolitan church of the whole of the Veneto.[1]
  • Otto I goes on a tour of the Lombard duchies of southern Italy. In Capua he grants Pandulf I (Ironhead) the vacant Duchy of Spoleto and Camerino and charges him with prosecuting the war against the Byzantine Empire. In Benevento, Otto receives the homage of Pandulf's brother and co-ruler Landulf III. In Salerno he receives also the support of Gisulf I.
  • Otto I dispatches an imperial delegation (led by a Venetian named Domenico) to Constantinople with assurances of his friendship and a request for Princess Theophano (a daughter of the late Emperor Romanos II) for his 12-year-old son Otto II. As dowry Otto demands the Byzantine holdings in southern Italy.
  • Summer Sviatoslav I, Grand Prince of Kiev, defeats Bulgar forces in the Balkans at the behest of Emperor Nikephoros II (who pays him 1,500 pounds of gold to invade the Bulgarian Empire).[2]
  • The imperial delegation arrives in Macedonia, but goes nowhere with Nikephoros II. Far from offering Byzantine Italy as dowry for Theophano, Nikephoros refuses to accept the claims of Otto I.
  • Otto I renews the imperial treaty with Pietro IV Candiano, doge of Venice. He grants him commercial privileges, and protection for Venetian citizens (also the possessions of Venetian bishops).
  • Winter Otto I returns to Rome. On Christmas day, John XIII crowns Otto II as co-emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Although Otto II is nominated as co-ruler, he exercises no real authority.[3]
  • Olaf Tryggvason flees Norway with his mother, only to be attacked by Estonian Vikings (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

  • Emir Nasir al-Dawla is deposed and imprisoned at Mosul after a 32-year reign by his son Abu Taghlib, the de facto governor, and supporters. He becomes the new ruler of the Emirate of Mosul.
  • The Fatimid general Jawhar al-Siqilli launches a military campaign in the west of the Maghreb. He resumes his expansion, together with the Zirids, and conquers Fez (modern-day Morocco).

Japan

  • July 5 Emperor Murakami dies after a 21-year reign. He is succeeded by his 17-year-old son Reizei, who is insane and becomes the 63rd emperor of Japan.

Religion

  • Otto I completes and dedicates a new cathedral at Magdeburg in Saxony. Like other imperial churches of the period, it includes a westwork – a structure attached to the entrance wall and outfitted with galleries. Otto makes Magdeburg a base for missionary efforts to convert the Slavs to the east. The patron saint of the city is Mauritius, who, as a military leader fighting for Christianity against pagan armies, shares affinities with Otto himself.
  • Re-foundation of Romsey Abbey in Hampshire by King Edgar I (the Peaceful). He appoints Merewenna, an English noblewoman, as abbess who becomes a foster mother to Princess Ælfflæd (a step-daughter of Edgar).[4]
  • April 22 The Cambodian temple Banteay Srei is consecrated and dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.

Births

  • December 7 Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (d. 1049)
  • Bolesław I (the Brave), king of Poland (d. 1025)
  • Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine (approximate date)
  • Lin Bu, Chinese poet and calligrapher (d. 1028)
  • Vahram Pahlavouni, prince of Bjni (Armenia) (d. 1045)
  • Walter of Speyer, German bishop and poet (d. 1027)

Deaths

  • February 9 Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir (b. 916)
  • April 8 Mu'izz al-Dawla, Buyid emir (b. 915)
  • May 10 Renaud of Roucy, Viking nobleman
  • July 5 Murakami, emperor of Japan (b. 926)
  • September 22 Wichmann II, Frankish nobleman
  • October 20 Li Yixing, Chinese governor
  • Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Umayyad historian (b. 897)
  • Abu 'Ali Muhammad ibn Ilyas, Ilyasid emir
  • Aleramo di Savona, marquess of Montferrat
  • Al-Qabisi, Hamdanid astrologer (approximate date)
  • Ashot III, prince of Taron (approximate date)
  • Boleslaus I (the Cruel), duke of Bohemia (or 972)
  • Dub mac Maíl Coluīm, king of Alba (Scotland)
  • Fergal ua Ruairc, king of Connacht (Ireland)
  • Hugh II (the Kind), lord of Lusignan
  • Krishna III, ruler of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty
  • Li Cheng, Chinese painter (b. 919)
  • Robert of Vermandois, Frankish nobleman (or 968)
  • Vushmgir, Ziyarid emir (approximate date)
  • Wahsudan ibn Muhammad, Sallarid emir
  • Yan Xu, Chinese chancellor (b. 910)

References

  1. The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Ed. Philippe Levillain, p. 841 (Routledge, 2002).
  2. W. Treadgold. A History of the Byzantine State and Society, p. 509.
  3. Reuter, Timothy (1991). Germany in the Early Middle Ages: 800–1056. Addison Wesley Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-49034-5.
  4. "The Abbey Church of St. Mary & St. Aethelfla". Archived from the original on June 19, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
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