970

All you want to know about 970

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades:	940s 950s 960s - 970s - 980s 990s 1000s
Years:	967 968 969 - 970 - 971 972 973

970 by topic v • d • e
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments - Disestablishments

**970 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	970 CMLXX
Ab urbe condita	1723
Armenian calendar	419 ԹՎ ՆԺԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-874 – -873
Berber calendar	1920
Buddhist calendar	1514
Burmese calendar	332
Byzantine calendar	6478 – 6479
Chinese calendar	己巳年十一月廿一日 (3606/3666-11-21) — to — 庚午年十二月初一日 (3607/3667-12-1)
Coptic calendar	686 – 687
Ethiopian calendar	962 – 963
Hebrew calendar	4730 – 4731
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1025 – 1026
- Shaka Samvat	892 – 893
- Kali Yuga	4071 – 4072
Holocene calendar	10970
Iranian calendar	348 – 349
Islamic calendar	359 – 360
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3303
Thai solar calendar	1513
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970 was a year in the 10th century.

Events

By Place

Asia

A major volcano erupts in Mashu, Japan.

Europe

A devastating decade-long famine begins in France.
Oldest preserved document (by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor) mentioning Leibnitz in Styria (Austria)
Byzantine Emperor John I successfully defends the Eastern Roman Empire from a massive barbarian invasion.

Africa

Construction is completed on Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo (the world's oldest

Islamic university).

Births

Leif Ericson, Norse explorer
Seyyed Razi, important Muslim scholar and writer
Sitt al-Mulk

Deaths

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