982

982 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	982; CMLXXXII
Ab urbe condita	1735
Armenian calendar	431; ԹՎ ՆԼԱ
Assyrian calendar	5732
Balinese saka calendar	903–904
Bengali calendar	389
Berber calendar	1932
Buddhist calendar	1526
Burmese calendar	344
Byzantine calendar	6490–6491
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake); 3678 or 3618; — to —; 壬午年 (Water Horse); 3679 or 3619
Coptic calendar	698–699
Discordian calendar	2148
Ethiopian calendar	974–975
Hebrew calendar	4742–4743
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1038–1039
- Shaka Samvat	903–904
- Kali Yuga	4082–4083
Holocene calendar	10982
Iranian calendar	360–361
Islamic calendar	371–372
Japanese calendar	Tengen 5; (天元５年)
Javanese calendar	883–884
Julian calendar	982; CMLXXXII
Korean calendar	3315
Minguo calendar	930 before ROC; 民前930年
Nanakshahi calendar	−486
Seleucid era	1293/1294 AG
Thai solar calendar	1524–1525
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་; (female Iron-Snake); 1108 or 727 or −45; — to —; ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་; (male Water-Horse); 1109 or 728 or −44

982 (CMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 982nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 982nd year of the 1st millennium, the 82nd year of the 10th century, and the 3rd year of the 980s decade. As of the start of 982, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

Greenland is discovered by Erik the Red (the first known European contact with North America).

July 13 – The Kalbids troops of the emir of Sicily defeat the imperial German army of Otto II near Crotone.

Yelu Longxu becomes the sixth emperor of the Liao Dynasty.
'Adud al-Dawla, a Buyid ruler, start what was soon to become the most important hospital of Baghdad.^[1]

Emperor Jingzong of Liao Dynasty
July 13 – Pandulf II of Salerno and Landulf IV of Benevento, at the Battle of Stilo near Crotone

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