992

Year 992 (CMXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
992 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar992
CMXCII
Ab urbe condita1745
Armenian calendar441
ԹՎ ՆԽԱ
Assyrian calendar5742
Balinese saka calendar913–914
Bengali calendar399
Berber calendar1942
Buddhist calendar1536
Burmese calendar354
Byzantine calendar6500–6501
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
3688 or 3628
     to 
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3689 or 3629
Coptic calendar708–709
Discordian calendar2158
Ethiopian calendar984–985
Hebrew calendar4752–4753
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1048–1049
 - Shaka Samvat913–914
 - Kali Yuga4092–4093
Holocene calendar10992
Iranian calendar370–371
Islamic calendar381–382
Japanese calendarShōryaku 3
(正暦3年)
Javanese calendar893–894
Julian calendar992
CMXCII
Korean calendar3325
Minguo calendar920 before ROC
民前920年
Nanakshahi calendar−476
Seleucid era1303/1304 AG
Thai solar calendar1534–1535
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1118 or 737 or −35
     to 
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1119 or 738 or −34
Pietro II Orseolo (left) and his son Otto.

Events

Worldwide

  • Winter A superflare from the sun causes an Aurora Borealis, with visibility as far south as Germany and Korea. [1]

Europe

  • Spring Pietro II Orseolo, doge of Venice, concludes a treaty with Emperor Basil II to transport Byzantine troops, in exchange for commercial privileges in Constantinople. Venetian ships are exempted from customs duties at Abydos (mostly foreign goods are carried on Venetian ships). Venetian merchants in Constantinople are placed directly under the Grand Logothetes (Minister of Finance).[2]
  • May 25 Mieszko I, prince (duke) of the Polans, dies after a reign of more than 30 years at Poznań. He is succeeded by his son Bolesław I the Brave who becomes ruler of Poland. Having inherited the principality (located between the Oder and the Warta rivers), Bolesław forms an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire.
  • June 27 Battle of Conquereuil: The Angevins under Fulk III "the Black", Count of Anjou, defeat the forces of Conan I, duke of Brittany, who is killed in the battle at Conquereuil (France).[3]
  • Approximate date Norse Viking settlers establish a mint in Dublin (Ireland), to produce silver pennies.

Births

  • August 1 Hyeonjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 1031)
  • Fujiwara no Michimasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1054)
  • Fujiwara no Yorimichi, Japanese nobleman (d. 1071)
  • Guido Monaco, Italian monk and music theorist (or 991)
  • Otto Orseolo, doge of Venice (approximate date)
  • Ulric Manfred II, count of Turin (approximate date)

Deaths

  • February 1 Jawhar al-Siqilli, Fatimid general
  • February 29 Oswald, archbishop of Worcester
  • May 25 Mieszko I, prince (duke) of Poland
  • June 15 Michael I, Kievan metropolitan bishop
  • June 27 Conan I, duke of Brittany
  • July 1 Heonjeong, queen of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 961)
  • August 23 Volkold, bishop of Meissen
  • December 3 Lothar II, German nobleman
  • Æthelwine, ealdorman of East Anglia
  • Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri, Persian philosopher
  • Adso of Montier-en-Der, Frankish abbot (b. 920)
  • Fujiwara no Nakafumi, Japanese waka poet (b. 923)
  • Fujiwara no Tamemitsu, Japanese statesman (b. 942)
  • Herbert of Wetterau, German nobleman
  • Liu Jiyuan, emperor of Northern Han
  • Maelpeadair Ua Tolaid, Irish abbot
  • Marino Cassianico, bishop of Venice

References

  1. "Mystery glow that lit up the night sky in 992 C.E. Explained".
  2. John Julius Norwich (1991). Byzantium: The Apogee, p. 257. ISBN 0-394-53779-3.
  3. Bernard S. Bachrach, Warfare and Military Organization in Pre-Crusade Europe (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT, 2002), IX, p. 66.
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