997

This article is about the year 997. For the car, see Porsche 997.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	960s 970s 980s – 990s – 1000s 1010s 1020s
Years:	994 995 996 – 997 – 998 999 1000

997 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 997 (CMXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

First documented reference to the City of Gdańsk.
Saint Adalbert of Prague is sent to Prussia by Boleslaus I of Poland.
Samuil of Bulgaria is crowned Tsar by Pope Gregory V.
Trondheim, Norway is founded by the king Olav Tryggvason. This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until Bergen is founded in 1070.
In Spain, the muslim de facto ruler of al-Andalus, al-Mansur, with the support of the Christians Portuguese knights, sacks one of Christendom's holiest sites of pilgrimage, Santiago de Compostella. On their way they sack the cities of Zamora and Leon.
In Southern Italy, rebellion of against the Byzantine rule led by Smaragdos and Peter.^[1]