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Year 964 (CMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Asia

  • Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas begins a campaign to recapture Cilicia.

    • Religion

  • May 22 – Pope Benedict V begins his pontificate as the 132nd pope, chosen by the people of Rome over Pope Leo VIII.
  • June 23 – Pope Benedict V is deposed and ecclesiastically degraded after Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, besieges Rome to enforce his choice of Leo VIII as Pope.

    • Science

  • Al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars is published.

    • Births

  • Queen Heonae

    • Deaths

  • May 14 – Pope John XII
  • Queen Zhou the Elder

    • References

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