Explore 40 historical events from 980–989.
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
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
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī was a Persian astronomer.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer (born 903)
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)
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
Hugh Capet was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and Hedwige of Saxon…
Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French…
Otto II, called the Red, was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, he was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and …
King Otto II and his Frankish army are defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy.
Geoffrey I of Anjou, known as Grisegonelle, was count of Anjou from 960 to 987.
Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou
Ramiro III, king of León (966–984), was the son of Sancho the Fat and his successor at the age of only five.
Ramiro III, king of León
Henry III, called the Younger, a member of the Luitpolding dynasty, was the first Duke of Carinthia from 976 to 978, Duke of Bavaria from 983 to 985 and again Duke of Carinthia fro…
Henry III, duke of Bavaria (born 940)
Fan Zhongyan, courtesy name Xiwen (希文), was an accomplished statesman, writer, scholar, and reformer of the northern Song dynasty. After serving multiple regional posts and at the …
Fan Zhongyan, Chinese chancellor (died 1052)
Glúniairn, in Old Norse Járnkné, was a Norse-Gael king of Dublin of the Uí Ímair kindred which ruled over much of the Scandinavianised and Norse-Gael parts of Great Britain and Ir…
The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and…
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)
Qian Chu, courtesy name Wende, known as Qian Hongchu before 960, also known by his posthumous name as the King Zhongyi of Wuyue, was the last king of Wuyue during the Five Dynastie…
Qian Chu, king of Wuyue (born 929)
Bardas Phokas was a Byzantine general who took a conspicuous part in three revolts for and against the ruling Macedonian dynasty.
Bardas Phokas the Younger rebels against Byzantine emperor Basil II and declares himself emperor.
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
Geoffrey I of Anjou, known as Grisegonelle, was count of Anjou from 960 to 987.
Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou
Hugh Capet was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and Hedwige of Saxon…
Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French…
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī was a Persian astronomer.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer (born 903)
Minnborinus of Cologne was an Irish abbot and saint active in Germany.
Minnborinus, Irish missionary and abbot
The Byzantine–Bulgarian wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Bulgarian Empire which began after the Bulgars conquered parts of the Balkan pen…
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan: The Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron defeat…
The Byzantine–Bulgarian wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Bulgarian Empire which began after the Bulgars conquered parts of the Balkan pen…
Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: The Bulgarians defeated Byzantine forces at the battle of the Gates of Trajan near…
Abu Ali al-Mansur, better known by his regnal name al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, was the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996–1021). Al-Hakim is an important figure in a number…
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (died 1021)
Ramiro III, king of León (966–984), was the son of Sancho the Fat and his successor at the age of only five.
Ramiro III, king of León
Antipope Boniface VII, otherwise known as Franco Ferrucci, was a Catholic prelate who claimed the Holy See in 974 and from 984 until 985. A popular tumult compelled him to flee to …
Boniface VII, antipope of Rome
Dietrich of Haldensleben was a count in the Schwabengau, later also in the Nordthüringgau and the Derlingau, who was the first Margrave of the Northern March from 965 until the Gre…
Dietrich of Haldensleben, German margrave
Crescentius the Elder, also known as Crescenzio de Theodora, was a politician and aristocrat in Rome who played a part in the papal appointments of Pope Benedict VI and Pope Bonifa…
Crescentius the Elder, Italian politician and aristocrat
Dietrich of Metz was Bishop of Metz from 964 until his death.
Dietrich I, bishop of Metz
Æthelwold of Winchester was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984 and one of the leaders of the tenth-century monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England.
Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester
Pope John XIV, born Peter Canepanova, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from December 983 until his death. Upon the death of Pope Benedict VII in July 983, Emper…
Pope John XIV
Pope Benedict VII was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from October 974 to his death on 10 July 983.
Benedict VII, pope of the Catholic Church