Year 987 (
CMLXXXVII) was a
common year starting on Saturday
A common year starting on Saturday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Saturday, 1 January, and ends on Saturday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is B. The current year, 2022, is a common year starting on Saturd ...
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* February 7 – Bardas Phokas (the Younger) and Bardas Skleros, two members of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. They overrun Anatolia, and Phokas declares himself Emperor. Basil applies for military assistance from Prince Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus', who agrees to help him and sends a Varangian army (6,000 men).
Europe
* Al-Mansur, the '' de facto'' ruler of Al-Andalus, occupies the city of Coimbra (modern Portugal).Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
revolts against the Byzantine Empire.
Africa
* The Zirid Dynasty fails to reconquer the western part of the Maghreb (Land of Atlas), which they have recently lost to the Umayyad Caliphate.
Births
*
Al-Mahdi al-Husayn, Zaidi
imam
Imam (; ar, إمام '; plural: ') is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic worship services, lead prayers, ser ...
of
Yemen (d.
1013
Year in topic Year 1013 ( MXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* King Henry II of Germany signs a peace treaty at Merseburg with Duke Boles ...
)
*
Ibn Hayyan, Moorish writer and
historian (d.
1075
Year 1075 ( MLXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
* The Kingdom of Mapungubwe is established, in modern-day South Africa.
Byzantine Empire
...
)
*
Li, imperial consort of the
Song Dynasty (d.
1032
Year 1032 ( MXXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Spring – Emperor Romanos III (Argyros) sends a Byzantine expeditionary ar ...
)
*
Liu Yong, Chinese
poet of the Song Dynasty (d.
1053
Year 1053 ( MLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* End of the Pecheneg Revolt: Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos makes peace with ...
)
Deaths
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
–
Pietro I Orseolo, doge of
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
(b.
928
Year 928 ( CMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* King Rudolph I loses the support of Herbert II, count of Vermandois, who controls the pr ...
)
*
March 30 –
Arnulf II (the Younger), Frankish
nobleman
*
May 21 –
Louis V Louis V may refer to:
* Louis V of France (967–987)
* Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor and V of Germany (1282–1347)
* Louis V, Duke of Bavaria (1315–1361)
* Louis V, Elector Palatine (ruled 1508–1544)
* Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (ru ...
, king of the
West Frankish Kingdom
*
July 13 –
Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali
Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali ibn al-Ikhshid ( ar, أبو الفوارس أحمد بن علي بن الإخشيد) was the last monarch of the autonomous Ikhshidid dynasty, which ruled Egypt, Syria and the Hejaz, from 968 to 969. However, he was a ch ...
, Ikhshidid governor
*
July 21 –
Geoffrey I (Greymantle), Frankish nobleman
*
September 8 (approximate date) –
Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, Frankish nobleman
[Detlev Schwennicke, ''Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten'', Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 49]
*
November 16 –
Shen Lun
Shen Lun ( 909 – 16 November 987, courtesy name Shunyi), known as Shen Yilun before 976, was a scholar-official who successively served the Later Han (Five Dynasties), Later Han, Later Zhou and Song dynasty, Song dynasties. He was one of the So ...
, Chinese
scholar-official
References
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