981
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 950s 960s 970s – 980s – 990s 1000s 1010s |
| Years: | 978 979 980 – 981 – 982 983 984 |
| 981 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 981 CMLXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1734 |
| Armenian calendar | 430 ԹՎ ՆԼ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5731 |
| Bengali calendar | 388 |
| Berber calendar | 1931 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1525 |
| Burmese calendar | 343 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6489–6490 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3677 or 3617 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3678 or 3618 |
| Coptic calendar | 697–698 |
| Discordian calendar | 2147 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 973–974 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4741–4742 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1037–1038 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 903–904 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4082–4083 |
| Holocene calendar | 10981 |
| Iranian calendar | 359–360 |
| Islamic calendar | 370–371 |
| Japanese calendar | Tengen 4 (天元４年) |
| Julian calendar | 981 CMLXXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3314 |
| Minguo calendar | 931 before ROC 民前931年 |
| Seleucid era | 1292/1293 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1523–1524 |
Year 981 (CMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- The Viking explorer Eric the Red-haired leaves Norway to survey west of Iceland. He finds land and calls it Greenland. Hundreds of land-starved Vikings board longships and head west for this so-called "Greenland".
- The de facto ruler of Al-Andalus, al-Mansur, conquers and razes to the ground the city of Zamora, as part of his effort to seize the Christian-dominated north of the Iberian Peninsula.
Asia
- The first ever Mahamasthakabhisheka ceremony of the sacred 57 feet (17 m) high monolithic statue of Lord Bahubali, is performed.
- The Gommateshwara statue is built by Chavundaraya of the Western Ganga Dynasty in India.
- The Bulgarians invade the Byzantine Empire.
- The first commercially made shaving soap sells for 3 dirhams (0.3 dinars).
Births
- May – Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi, Arab statesman and writer (d. 1027)
Deaths
- Adalbert of Magdeburg
- Gyeongjong of Goryeo
- Olaf Cuaran
- Pandulf Ironhead
- Xue Juzheng, noted Chinese historian
