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Year 982 (CMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Americas

  • Greenland is discovered by Erik the Red (the first known European contact with North America).

    • Asia

  • Yelu Longxu becomes the sixth emperor of the Liao Dynasty.
  • The Buyid ruler, 'Adud al-Dawla, establishes what will soon become the most important hospital of Baghdad.

    • Europe

  • July 13 – The Kalbids troops, of the emir of Sicily, defeat the imperial German army of Otto II, near Crotone.
  • Harald Bluetooth king of Denmark invades Norway, pillaging south-west Norway all the way to Stadt, where he encounters Haakon Sigurdsson and his army, and flees back to Denmark, ending the invasion.

    • Religion

  • Adalbert becomes Bishop of Prague.

    • Births

  • Emma of Normandy
  • Atisha, Bengali Buddhist saint

    • Deaths

  • January 2 – Dětmar, first Bishop of Prague
  • July 13
  • Pandulf II of Salerno, prince of Salerno
  • Landulf IV of Benevento, prince of Capua
  • Emperor Jingzong of Liao
  • Al-Hasan ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Tughj, Ikhshidid prince and regent
  • Senorina, abbess and saint.

    • References

    982 Wikipedia
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