987

This article is about the year 987. For the Singapore Mediacorp radio station, see 987FM.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	960s 970s 980s 990s 1000s
Years:	984 985 986 987 988 989 990

987 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	987 CMLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1740
Armenian calendar	436 ԹՎ ՆԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	5737
Balinese saka calendar	908–909
Bengali calendar	394
Berber calendar	1937
Buddhist calendar	1531
Burmese calendar	349
Byzantine calendar	6495–6496
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3684 or 3477     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3685 or 3478
Coptic calendar	703–704
Discordian calendar	2153
Ethiopian calendar	979–980
Hebrew calendar	4747–4748
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1043–1044
- Shaka Samvat	908–909
- Kali Yuga	4087–4088
Holocene calendar	10987
Iranian calendar	365–366
Islamic calendar	376–377
Japanese calendar	Kanna 3 / Eien 1 (永延元年)
Javanese calendar	888–889
Julian calendar	987 CMLXXXVII
Korean calendar	3320
Minguo calendar	925 before ROC 民前925年
Nanakshahi calendar	−481
Seleucid era	1298/1299 AG
Thai solar calendar	1529–1530
Tibetan calendar	阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1113 or 732 or −40     — to — 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1114 or 733 or −39

Year 987 (CMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• February 7 – Bardas Phokas (the Younger) and Bardas Skleros, two members of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. They overrun Anatolia, and Phokas declares himself Emperor. Basil applies for military assistance from Prince Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus', who agrees to help him and sends a Varangian army (6,000 men).[1]

Europe

• Al-Mansur, the de facto ruler of Al-Andalus, occupies the city of Coimbra (modern Portugal).[2]
• July 3 – After the last Carolingian king of West Francia, Louis V, had died in May, Hugh Capet is crowned king at Noyon.
• December – The 15-year-old Robert (the son of Hugh Capet) is crowned co-ruler of France around Christmas at Orléans.[3]
• The population of Bari revolts against the Byzantine Empire.[4]

Africa

• The Zirid Dynasty fails to reconquer the western part of the Maghreb (Land of Atlas), which they have recently lost to the Umayyad Caliphate.[5]

Births

• Al-Mahdi al-Husayn, Zaidi imam of Yemen (d. 1013)
• Ibn Hayyan, Moorish writer and historian (d. 1075)
• Li, imperial consort of the Song Dynasty (d. 1032)
• Liu Yong, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty (d. 1053)

Deaths

• January 10 – Pietro I Orseolo, doge of Venice (b. 928)
• March 30 – Arnulf II (the Younger), Frankish nobleman
• May 21 – Louis V, king of the West Frankish Kingdom
• July 13 – Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali, Ikhshidid governor[6]
• July 21 – Geoffrey I (Greymantle), Frankish nobleman
• September 8 (approximate date) – Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, Frankish nobleman[7]
• November 16 – Shen Lun, Chinese scholar-official

References

1. Raffaele D'Amato (2010). Osprey: MAA - 459: The Varangian Guard 988–1453, p. 6. ISBN 978-1-84908-179-5.
2. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 109. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
3. Robert Fawtier, The Capetian Kings of France, transl. Lionel Butler and R.J. Adam, (Macmillan, 1989), p.48.
4. France, John (1991). "The occasion of the coming of the Normans to southern Italy". Journal of Medieval History. 17 (1): 183–203. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(91)90033-H.
5. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 45.
6. Bacharach, Jere L. (2006). Islamic History Through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-century Ikhshidid Coinage. Cairo: American University in Cairo. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9774249305.
7. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 49