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Year 981 (CMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • The Viking explorer Eric the Red-haired leaves Norway, to survey west of Iceland. He finds land and calls it Greenland. Hundreds of land-starved Vikings board longships, and head west for this so-called "Greenland".
  • The de facto ruler of Al-Andalus, al-Mansur, conquers and razes to the ground the city of Zamora, as part of his effort to seize the Christian-dominated north of the Iberian Peninsula.

    • Asia

  • The first ever Mahamasthakabhisheka ceremony, of the sacred 57 feet (17 m) high monolithic statue of Lord Bahubali, is performed.
  • The Gommateshwara statue is built by Chavundaraya, of the Western Ganga Dynasty in India.
  • The Bulgarians invade the Byzantine Empire.
  • The first commercially made shaving soap sells for 3 dirhams (0.3 dinars).

    • Births

  • May – Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi, Arab statesman and writer (d. 1027)

    • Deaths

  • Adalbert of Magdeburg
  • Gyeongjong of Goryeo
  • Olaf Cuaran
  • Pandulf Ironhead
  • Xue Juzheng, noted Chinese historian

    • References

    981 Wikipedia
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