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Year 986 (CMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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America

  • Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America.

    • Asia

  • Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
  • March–July – Chi go Pass Campaign: The Song dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but they are defeated on all fronts.
  • One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1,000 volumes, representing the work of some 2,200 authors.

    • Europe

  • March 2 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
  • August 17 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan – The Bulgarians defeat the Byzantine Empire forces at the Gate of Trajan, near modern-day Ihtiman, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
  • The de facto ruler of al-Andalus, al-Mansur, continues his effort in the north of the Iberian peninsula; he takes and sacks Coimbra (following which the city is said to have remained deserted for six years).
  • Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark.
  • Battle of Hjörungavágr: Håkon Sigurdsson of Norway defeats the Danish invasion force.

    • Births

  • Æthelstan Ætheling, son of Æthelred the Unready (d. 1011)
  • Constance of Arles, French queen

    • Deaths

  • March 2 – Lothair, King of the Franks (b. 941)
  • May 25 – Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer (b. 903)
  • Harold I of Denmark
  • Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd
  • Yang Ye, Chinese general of Song dynasty

    • References

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