958

Year 958 (CMLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
958 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar958
CMLVIII
Ab urbe condita1711
Armenian calendar407
ԹՎ ՆԷ
Assyrian calendar5708
Balinese saka calendar879–880
Bengali calendar365
Berber calendar1908
Buddhist calendar1502
Burmese calendar320
Byzantine calendar6466–6467
Chinese calendar丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3654 or 3594
     to 
戊午年 (Earth Horse)
3655 or 3595
Coptic calendar674–675
Discordian calendar2124
Ethiopian calendar950–951
Hebrew calendar4718–4719
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1014–1015
 - Shaka Samvat879–880
 - Kali Yuga4058–4059
Holocene calendar10958
Iranian calendar336–337
Islamic calendar346–347
Japanese calendarTentoku 2
(天徳2年)
Javanese calendar858–859
Julian calendar958
CMLVIII
Korean calendar3291
Minguo calendar954 before ROC
民前954年
Nanakshahi calendar−510
Seleucid era1269/1270 AG
Thai solar calendar1500–1501
Tibetan calendar阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1084 or 703 or −69
     to 
阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1085 or 704 or −68
King Gorm the Old (c. 936–c. 958)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • October / November Battle of Raban: The Byzantines under John Tzimiskes defeat the Hamdanid forces in northern Syria. Emir Sayf al-Dawla is forced to retreat – many of his court companions and ghilman fall in pursuit, while over 1,700 of his Turk cavalry are captured and paraded in the streets of Constantinople.[1]

Europe

  • King Berengar II invades the March of Verona, which is under control of the dukes of Bavaria, and lay siege to Count Adalbert Atto at Canossa Castle (northern Italy). Berengar sends a Lombard expeditionary force under his son Guy of Ivrea against Theobald II, duke of Spoleto. He captures Spoleto and Camerino.

Africa

  • The Fatimid general Abu al-Hasan Jawhar ibn Abd Allah takes Ifgan, the capital of the rebellious Kharijite Banu Ya'la tribe. In the following two years, Jawhar conquers most of the north of modern-day Morocco and Algeria. In particular, he conquers the cities of Tangier, Sijilmasa and Tlemcen.[2]

Asia

  • King Ksemagupta dies of a fever after a hunting party. He is succeeded by his youngest son Abhimanyu II. Queen Didda, the widow of Ksemagupta, becomes regent and the de facto ruler of Kashmir (modern India).
  • Emperor Chai Rong of the Later Zhou invades the Northern Han and the Khitan Empire in the Sixteen Prefectures (northern China), but is defeated.

Births

Deaths

  • May Ibn Durustawayh, Persian grammarian, lexicographer and student of the Quran and hadith (b. 872)
  • June 2 Oda (the Good), archbishop of Canterbury
  • September 17 Li Jingsui, Chinese prince (b. 920)
  • September 18 Liu Sheng, Chinese emperor (b. 920)
  • October 15 Toda, queen of Pamplona (b. 876)
  • date unknown
    • Ammar ibn Ali al-Kalbi, Fatimid military commander
    • Faifne an Filí, Irish poet and ollamh ("professor")
    • Finshneachta Ua Cuill, Irish poet
    • Fujiwara no Kiyotada, Japanese poet
    • Lashkarwarz, Daylamite military commander
    • Mastalus II, duke and patrician of Amalfi (Italy)
    • Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto, Japanese waka poet
    • Qingliang Wenyi, Chinese Buddhist monk
    • Sumbat I, king of Iberia (Georgia)
  • probable

References

  1. Shepard, Jonathan (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, Volume 3, pp.151–152. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533403-6.
  2. Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 42.
  3. La Chronique de Nantes pages 109-110 indique qu’il aurait été ébouillanté dans son bain par sa nourrice sur ordre de Foulque II d'Anjou
  4. "The Royal Lineage". The Danish Monarchy. July 6, 2015. Archived from the original on July 6, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
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