983

This page relates to the year 983 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Western Europe

  • December: Beginning of the Pontificate of Jean XIV (fine in 985).

  • December 25th: Beginning of the reign of Otton (Othon) III, Germanic Roman Emperor (fine in 1002).
    • Othon II dies of the Malaria. His/her son is only three years old. His/her mother Theophano and her grandmother Adélaïde ensure regency. She leave him an intact empire. Othon III will devote all its reign to the continuation of a dream: restoration of the empire of Constantin and Charlemagne while making reside the emperor and the pope in the Eternal City. The forces of monarchy will wear there (999).

  • With died of Othon II of Germanic, king de Francie Western Lothaire invades the Lorraine again. It takes Verdun of which the weather is captive the bishop Godefroy. It worries the archbishop of Rheims Adalbéron and the schoolmaster of Rheims, Gerbert d' Aurillac (future Sylvestre II), in favor of Othon.

Scandinavia

  • the Danes take again the Schleswig and expel towards the South the Germans who occupy it.

  • the jarl Norwegian Hákon Sigutdharson of Trøndelag breaks the alliance passed with the king of Denmark Harald Blaatand which ensured to him the government of the provinces of the south-west of the Norway. It overcomes Harald and its allies Wendes with the battle of Hjörungavárg (in the south of current the Ålesund).

Eastern Europe

  • Success of a Slavic revolt in the Walk of North against christianization and the German domination: the episcopal sees of Brandebourg and Havelberg are destroyed, the Margrave Dietrich d' Haldensleben is dislocated of its functions. The Slaves are released from the German domination between the Elba and the Oder. German colonization in the East is stopped until in 1125.

  • Mieszko Ier of Poland benefits from the Slavic revolt to complete the conquest of the Western Poméranie with the castrum of Stettin (Szczecin) and the littoral of the Baltique.

The Middle East

  • With died of Adud Al Dawla, the kingdom buyide is parcelled out.

Economy & company

  • the trade of the Indian Ocean is diverted Iraq and passes more and more by the Red Sea, encouraged by the Fatimides. The relations between Mésopotamie and Syria suffer from the wars which are held in Syria between Fatimides and Byzantines. These economic modifications affect the merchants but also the public revenues Buyide.

Art & culture

  • monolithic Statue of 17 meters of the saint Gomateśvara set up in the sanctuary jaïna of Śravana-Belgola, in India.

Births in 983

Death in 983

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