994

994 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	994 CMXCIV
Ab urbe condita	1747
Armenian calendar	443 ԹՎ ՆԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	5744
Balinese saka calendar	915–916
Bengali calendar	401
Berber calendar	1944
Buddhist calendar	1538
Burmese calendar	356
Byzantine calendar	6502–6503
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3690 or 3630     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3691 or 3631
Coptic calendar	710–711
Discordian calendar	2160
Ethiopian calendar	986–987
Hebrew calendar	4754–4755
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1050–1051
- Shaka Samvat	915–916
- Kali Yuga	4094–4095
Holocene calendar	10994
Iranian calendar	372–373
Islamic calendar	383–384
Japanese calendar	Shōryaku 5 (正暦５年)
Javanese calendar	895–896
Julian calendar	994 CMXCIV
Korean calendar	3327
Minguo calendar	918 before ROC 民前918年
Nanakshahi calendar	−474
Seleucid era	1305/1306 AG
Thai solar calendar	1536–1537
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1120 or 739 or −33     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1121 or 740 or −32

994 (CMXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 994th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 994th year of the 1st millennium, the 94th year of the 10th century, and the 5th year of the 990s decade. As of the start of 994, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

By place

Europe

• Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty.
• Otto III reaches his majority and begins to rule Germany.
• Aethelred II pays £16,000 of Danegeld to Olaf Trygvasson.

Middle East

• September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: Fatimid victory over a Byzantine army led by Michael Bourtzes

Births

• November 7 – Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
• Simeon, first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey
• Imam Bayhaqi Scholar of Islamic Faith

Deaths

• Margrave Leopold I of Austria
• Sigeric the Serious
• John Weir the Great, King of the Nords