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Year 988 (CMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • The Liao Dynasty adopts civil service examinations in the Southern Chancellery, based on Tang Dynasty models.

    • Europe

  • The offensive of al-Mansur against the Christian kingdoms continues. He attacks the heart of the kingdom of León. King Bermudo II has to escape to Zamora; the city of León resists four days but is taken, sacked and burned; Zamora is forced to surrender, and the king flees to Galicia.
  • Dublin, Ireland is founded.
  • The city of Odense, Denmark is founded.
  • Kievan Rus' accepts Christianity.
  • The Rus'–Byzantine War continues.
  • Borrell II, Count of Barcelona does not renew allegiance to the French king Hugh Capet; he becomes a de facto independent count, and starts minting its own currency; this will be confirmed legally by the treaty of Corbeil (1258). This event is considered the symbolic birth of Catalonia.

    • Religion

  • Baptism of Kievan Rus': Vladimir I, Prince of Kiev marries Anna, sister of Byzantine emperor Basil II and converts to Christianity.
  • Abbo becomes abbot at Fleury.
  • The Mezhyhirskyi Monastery is founded by Michael of Kiev.

    • Births

  • Tilopa, Indian tantric practitioner and mahasiddha
  • Empress Shōshi, Empress of Japan

    • Deaths

  • May 19 – Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909)
  • Qian Chu – last King of Wuyue
  • Judith of Hungary, princess

    • References

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