Calendar year
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 958 CMLVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 1711 |
Armenian calendar | 407 ԹՎ ՆԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 5708 |
Balinese saka calendar | 879–880 |
Bengali calendar | 365 |
Berber calendar | 1908 |
Buddhist calendar | 1502 |
Burmese calendar | 320 |
Byzantine calendar | 6466–6467 |
Chinese calendar | 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3655/3448 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3656 or 3449 |
Coptic calendar | 674–675 |
Discordian calendar | 2124 |
Ethiopian calendar | 950–951 |
Hebrew calendar | 4718–4719 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1014–1015 |
- Shaka Samvat | 879–880 |
- Kali Yuga | 4058–4059 |
Holocene calendar | 10958 |
Iranian calendar | 336–337 |
Islamic calendar | 346–347 |
Japanese calendar | Tentoku 2 (天徳2年) |
Javanese calendar | 858–859 |
Julian calendar | 958 CMLVIII |
Korean calendar | 3291 |
Minguo calendar | 954 before ROC 民前954年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −510 |
Seleucid era | 1269/1270 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1500–1501 |
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 |
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Year 958 (CMLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events※
By place※
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.
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.
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※
- Basil II (Bulgar Slayer), Byzantine emperor (d. 1025)
- Otto-William, count of Burgundy (approximate date)
- Rinchen Zangpo, Tibetan Buddhist monk (d. 1055)
- Samuel, tsar of the Bulgarian Empire (approximate date)
- Vladimir I (the Great), Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1015)
- Yang Yanzhao, general of the Song Dynasty (d. 1014)
- Yaropolk I, Grand Prince of Kiev (approximate date)
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
- Drogo, duke of Brittany
- Gorm the Old, king of Denmark. He was born before 900 and "may have died as late as 964."
References※
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 42.
- ^ 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
- ^ "The Royal Lineage". The Danish Monarchy. July 6, 2015. Archived from the original on July 6, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2019.