Year 978 (CMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
978 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar978
CMLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1731
Armenian calendar427
ԹՎ ՆԻԷ
Assyrian calendar5728
Balinese saka calendar899–900
Bengali calendar385
Berber calendar1928
Buddhist calendar1522
Burmese calendar340
Byzantine calendar6486–6487
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
3675 or 3468
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
3676 or 3469
Coptic calendar694–695
Discordian calendar2144
Ethiopian calendar970–971
Hebrew calendar4738–4739
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1034–1035
 - Shaka Samvat899–900
 - Kali Yuga4078–4079
Holocene calendar10978
Iranian calendar356–357
Islamic calendar367–368
Japanese calendarJōgen 3 / Tengen 1
(天元元年)
Javanese calendar879–880
Julian calendar978
CMLXXVIII
Korean calendar3311
Minguo calendar934 before ROC
民前934年
Nanakshahi calendar−490
Seleucid era1289/1290 AG
Thai solar calendar1520–1521
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1104 or 723 or −49
    — to —
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1105 or 724 or −48
Æthelred II (the Unready) (c. 966–1016)

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China

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  • June 9 – King Qian Chu surrenders his territories and pledges allegiance to the Song Dynasty, saving his people from war and economic destruction. Qian Chu remains ruler and moves 3,000 members of his household to Bianjing (modern-day Kaifeng). Wuyue is absorbed into the Song Dynasty, effectively ending the kingdom.

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References

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  1. ^ Reuter, Timothy (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 254. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  2. ^ David Michael Metcalf (1998). An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coin Finds, C.973-1086. Royal Numismatic Society. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-85444-110-2.
  3. ^ John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1995). A History of the Russian Church to 1448. Longman. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-582-08068-3.
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