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Year 965 (CMLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Byzantine-Arab Wars: Nikephoros II Phokas sacks Tarsus, and completes the conquest of Cilicia. Arab raids into Anatolia permanently cease. That same year, Byzantine troops under Niketas Chalkoutzes occupy Cyprus, liberating the Greek population from Arab control.
  • Northern Song armies invade the Later Shu Kingdom, and force it to surrender.

    • Europe

  • The Khazar fortress of Sarkel falls to the Kievan Rus.
  • Byzantine-Arab Wars: The Byzantine attempt to recover Sicily definitely fails, when the Byzantine fleet is annihilated by the Fatimids at the Battle of the Straits. Soon after, the last Byzantine stronghold on the island, Rometta, falls.

    • Art

  • The dome in front of the mihrab, Great Mosque of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, is built.

    • Religion

  • March 1 – Pope Leo VIII is restored, in place of Pope Benedict V.
  • October 1 – Pope John XIII succeeds Pope Leo VIII, as the 133rd pope.

    • Births

  • Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (d. 1017)
  • Alhazen; Arab or Persian scientist and polymath
  • Sweyn I of Denmark

    • Deaths

  • February 22 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy
  • July 4 – Pope Benedict V
  • September 23 – Al-Mutanabbi, Arab poet (b. 915)
  • October 11 – Bruno the Great, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 925)
  • Meng Chang, Emperor of Later Shu
  • Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi
  • Hedwig of Saxony, French regent, mother of Hugh Capet

    • References

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