985

985 (CMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 985th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 985th year of the 1st millennium, the 85th year of the 10th century, and the 6th year of the 980s decade. As of the start of 985, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

985 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	985 CMLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1738
Armenian calendar	434 ԹՎ ՆԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	5735
Balinese saka calendar	906–907
Bengali calendar	392
Berber calendar	1935
Buddhist calendar	1529
Burmese calendar	347
Byzantine calendar	6493–6494
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3681 or 3621     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3682 or 3622
Coptic calendar	701–702
Discordian calendar	2151
Ethiopian calendar	977–978
Hebrew calendar	4745–4746
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1041–1042
- Shaka Samvat	906–907
- Kali Yuga	4085–4086
Holocene calendar	10985
Iranian calendar	363–364
Islamic calendar	374–375
Japanese calendar	Eikan 3 / Kanna 1 (寛和元年)
Javanese calendar	886–887
Julian calendar	985 CMLXXXV
Korean calendar	3318
Minguo calendar	927 before ROC 民前927年
Nanakshahi calendar	−483
Seleucid era	1296/1297 AG
Thai solar calendar	1527–1528
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Monkey) 1111 or 730 or −42     — to — ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 1112 or 731 or −41

Events

• Barcelona sacked by Al-Mansur
• Greenland colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland)
• Lady Wulfruna founded the town that later became the city of Wolverhampton
• Henry the Wrangler restored as Duke of Bavaria
• Rajaraja Chola I becomes the Chola Emperor and brings in another golden era of Chola Empire

Births

• Emma of Normandy, Queen of England and first Queen Mother of England; mother of Edward the Confessor and aunt of William the Conqueror (died 1055)