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Year 983 (CMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Wood carvers, commissioned by China's Song Dynasty, complete a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are produced).
  • The Khazar Empire ends.
  • Emperor Shengzong leads a Liao Dynasty expeditionary force against the Zubu.
  • One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1,000 volumes, of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.
  • Fatimid troops, under the defecting Hamdanid governor of Homs, Bakjur, attack Aleppo, but are repulsed through the intervention of Byzantine troops.

    • Europe

  • Otto III becomes King of Germany, following the death of Otto II.
  • The Veronese donation is made during the diet of Verona. Otto gifts the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz.

    • Religion

  • December – Pope John XIV succeeds Pope Benedict VII, as the 136th pope.

    • Births

  • Odo II, Count of Blois
  • Wulfnoth Cild

    • Deaths

  • Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
  • 'Adud al-Daula
  • Pope Benedict VII
  • Mu'ayyad al-Daula
  • Patriarch Anthony III of Constantinople

    • References

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