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Year 995 (CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • The Liao Dynasty sends a patent of investiture to the new Goryeo king.

    • Europe

  • Upon the death of Eric the Victorious, he is succeeded by his son Olof Skötkonung, as the first baptized king of Sweden.
  • Basil II lifts the siege of Aleppo, by mounting his entire army, and transferring it across Anatolia in sixteen days.
  • Constantine III becomes king of Scotland.
  • Boleslaus II of Bohemia massacres the Slavnik's dynasty at Libice.
  • Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway, and builds the country's first church.
  • Aldhun, Bishop of Lindisfarne, moves his episcopal see from Chester-le-Street to Durham in England, to which the remains of Saint Cuthbert (d. 687) are translated.

    • Births

  • Canute the Great (approximate) (d. 1035)
  • Guido of Arezzo, Italian musician (d. 1050)
  • Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and author (d. 1077)
  • Olaf II of Norway (d.1030)

    • Deaths

  • February 5 – William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
  • Erik Segersäll, King of Sweden since 970 (b. c. 945)
  • Henry II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 951)
  • Kenneth II of Scotland (possibly murdered)
  • Haakon Sigurdsson earl (and de facto ruler) of Norway
  • Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin, second ruler of the North African Zirid dynasty

    • References

    995 Wikipedia
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