983

983 (CMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 983rd year of the 1st millennium, the 83rd year of the 10th century, and the 4th year of the 980s decade. As of the start of 983, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	950s  960s  970s  – 980s –  990s  1000s  1010s
Years:	980 981 982 – 983 – 984 985 986

983 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	983 CMLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1736
Armenian calendar	432 ԹՎ ՆԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	5733
Balinese saka calendar	904–905
Bengali calendar	390
Berber calendar	1933
Buddhist calendar	1527
Burmese calendar	345
Byzantine calendar	6491–6492
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3679 or 3619     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3680 or 3620
Coptic calendar	699–700
Discordian calendar	2149
Ethiopian calendar	975–976
Hebrew calendar	4743–4744
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1039–1040
- Shaka Samvat	904–905
- Kali Yuga	4083–4084
Holocene calendar	10983
Iranian calendar	361–362
Islamic calendar	372–373
Japanese calendar	Tengen 6 / Eikan 1 (永観元年)
Javanese calendar	884–885
Julian calendar	983 CMLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3316
Minguo calendar	929 before ROC 民前929年
Nanakshahi calendar	−485
Seleucid era	1294/1295 AG
Thai solar calendar	1525–1526
Tibetan calendar	阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1109 or 728 or −44     — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1110 or 729 or −43

Events

By place

Asia

• Wood carvers paid by China's Song Dynasty complete a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are made).
• The reign of Amir Adhad ad-Dowleh of Buwayhid ends.
• Sharaf ad-Dawla becomes Amir Buwayhid.
• The Khazar Empire ends.
• Emperor Shengzong leads a Liao Dynasty expeditionary force against the Zubu.
• One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is finished in 1,000 volumes of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.

Europe

• Otto III becomes King of Germany after the death of Otto II.
• Veronese donation during the diet of Verona. Otto gave the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz

By topic

Religion

• December – Pope John XIV becomes the 136th pope after Pope Benedict VII died.

Births

• Odo II, Count of Blois
• Wulfnoth Cild

Deaths

• Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 'Adud al-Daula
• Pope Benedict VII
• Mu'ayyad al-Daula
• Patriarch Anthony III of Constantinople

References