979 Explained
Year 979 (CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It was the last year of the 970s decade.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
Europe
- Vitale Candiano, doge of Venice, abdicates for health reasons after a 14-month reign, and retires to a monastery. He is succeeded by Tribuno Memmo, a son-in-law of the murdered Pietro IV Candiano. Tribuno declares a general amnesty for everyone complicit in the plot against Pietro.[1]
- June 8 - Louis V, nicknamed le Fainéant (the Do-Nothing), is crowned as the co-emperor of West Francia at Paris by his father, King Lothair. Upon Lothair's death on March 2, 986, Louis becomes the sole ruler.
- The city of Brussels is founded by Charles, duke of Lower Lorraine. He constructs fortifications (a castrum on an island) on the Senne River (modern Belgium).
Britain
- Tynwald (or Tynwald Court), the parliament of the Isle of Man, is founded. It remains active as the longest continuous parliament in the world.[2]
Africa
China
Births
Deaths
Notes and References
- Janet Sethre (2003). The Souls of Venice, p. 84 (McFarland & Co. Inc).
- Web site: Taking Liberties - Star Items - Chronicle of Mann. bl.uk. 28 February 2015.
- Book: Ann Paludan. Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-by-reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China. 1998. Thames and Hudson. 978-0-500-05090-3.
- Dandolo, Andrea, et al. 1938. Chronica per extensum descripta (= Rerum italicarum scriptores 12.1). Bologna: Zanichelli, p. 500.
- Web site: Iago ab Idwal Foel (f. 942-979), king of Gwynedd. Thomas Jones Pierce. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. June 28, 2021.