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Year 985 (CMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Rajaraja Chola I (considered by many as the greatest Emperor of the Chola Empire) becomes the Chola Emperor, and brings in another golden era of Tamils and of the Chola dynasty.

    • Europe

  • July 6 – Barcelona is sacked by troops of Almanzor.
  • Greenland is colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend, but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland).
  • Lady Wulfruna founds the town that later becomes the city of Wolverhampton.
  • Henry the Wrangler is restored as Duke of Bavaria.

    • Religion

  • August – Pope John XV succeeds Pope John XIV, as the 137th pope.

    • Births

  • Cnut the Great (approximate) (d. 1035)
  • Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, later sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt
  • Radbot, Count of Habsburg (d. 1045)
  • Gisela of Hungary
  • Maria of Amalfi

    • Deaths

  • July 20 – Antipope Boniface VII (b. c.930)
  • Kishi Joō, Japanese Waka poet and lady of the court (b. 929)

    • References

    985 Wikipedia
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