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Year 998 (CMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Battle of Ghazni: Mahmud of Ghazni wins, and succeeds as the Amir of Ghazni.
  • June – Tyre is stormed by the forces of the Fatimid Caliphate, ending a two-year rebellion of its citizens.
  • 19 July – Battle of Apamea: The Fatimid army, under Jaysh ibn Samsama, defeats and kills the Byzantine general Damian Dalassenos.
  • The Uji Villa is officially built by Michinaga Fujiwara, as predecessor of Byodo-in in Yamashiro Province, (present day of Kyoto Prefecture) Japan.

    • Europe

  • Otto III retakes the city of Rome, and reinstates his cousin, Pope Gregory V, after mutilating and blinding his rival, Antipope John XVI.
  • St. Volodimir of Rus founds (or, according to some documents, gives his name to) the city of Volodimir of Wolyn, future capital of the kingdom of Ruthenia Minor (Halych-Wolyn Rus).
  • Emperor Samuil of Western Bulgarian Tsardom launches a military campaign against Kingdom of Croatia, and besieges the city of Zadar.

    • Religion

  • A Benedictine abbey is founded at Sherborne.
  • St. Volodimir, Prince of Kiev Rus (modern Ukraine, Russia and Belarus), baptizes his country.

    • Births

  • George I of Georgia

    • Deaths

  • Abu'l-Wafa, Iranian mathematician
  • July 19 – Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine duke of Antioch

    • References

    998 Wikipedia
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