| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 950s 960s 970s – 980s – 990s 1000s 1010s |
| Years: | 984 985 986 – 987 – 988 989 990 |
| 987 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 987 CMLXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1740 |
| Armenian calendar | 436 ԹՎ ՆԼԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -857 – -856 |
| Bengali calendar | 394 |
| Berber calendar | 1937 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1531 |
| Burmese calendar | 349 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6495 – 6496 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年十一月廿九日 (3623/3683-11-29) — to —
丁亥年十二月初九日(3624/3684-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 703 – 704 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 979 – 980 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4747 – 4748 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1043 – 1044 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 909 – 910 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4088 – 4089 |
| Holocene calendar | 10987 |
| Iranian calendar | 365 – 366 |
| Islamic calendar | 376 – 377 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3320 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1530 |