Explore 7 historical events from 980–989.
Dirk II or Theoderic II was a count in West Frisia, and ancestor of the counts of Holland. He was the son and heir of Dirk I and his wife Geva.
Dirk II, count of Frisia and Holland
Adaldag was the seventh archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, from 937 until his death.
Adaldag, archbishop of Bremen
Dunstan was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canoni…
Dunstan, English archbishop and saint (born 909)
Louis V, also known as Louis the Lazy, was a king of West Francia from 979 to his early death in 987. During his reign, the nobility essentially ruled the country. Dying childless,…
Louis V, king of West Francia (born c
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī was a Persian astronomer.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer (born 903)
Adalbert of Magdeburg, sometimes incorrectly shortened to "Albert", known as the Apostle of the Slavs, was the first Archbishop of Magdeburg and a successful missionary to the Pola…
Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg
Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych, given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015. The…
Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea
Adaldag was the seventh archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, from 937 until his death.
Adaldag, archbishop of Bremen
Dirk II or Theoderic II was a count in West Frisia, and ancestor of the counts of Holland. He was the son and heir of Dirk I and his wife Geva.
Dirk II, count of Frisia and Holland
Dunstan was an English bishop and Benedictine monk. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canoni…
Dunstan, English archbishop and saint (born 909)
Louis V, also known as Louis the Lazy, was a king of West Francia from 979 to his early death in 987. During his reign, the nobility essentially ruled the country. Dying childless,…
Louis V, king of West Francia (born c
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī was a Persian astronomer.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer (born 903)
Adalbert of Magdeburg, sometimes incorrectly shortened to "Albert", known as the Apostle of the Slavs, was the first Archbishop of Magdeburg and a successful missionary to the Pola…
Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg
Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych, given the epithet "the Great", was Prince of Novgorod from 970 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 978 until his death in 1015. The…
Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea