965
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 930s 940s 950s – 960s – 970s 980s 990s |
| Years: | 962 963 964 – 965 – 966 967 968 |
| 965 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 965 CMLXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1718 |
| Armenian calendar | 414 ԹՎ ՆԺԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5715 |
| Bengali calendar | 372 |
| Berber calendar | 1915 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1509 |
| Burmese calendar | 327 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6473–6474 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3661 or 3601 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3662 or 3602 |
| Coptic calendar | 681–682 |
| Discordian calendar | 2131 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 957–958 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4725–4726 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1021–1022 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 887–888 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4066–4067 |
| Holocene calendar | 10965 |
| Iranian calendar | 343–344 |
| Islamic calendar | 353–355 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōhō 2 (康保２年) |
| Julian calendar | 965 CMLXV |
| Korean calendar | 3298 |
| Minguo calendar | 947 before ROC 民前947年 |
| Seleucid era | 1276/1277 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1507–1508 |
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Year 965 (CMLXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- The Khazar fortress of Sarkel falls to the Kievan Rus.
- Byzantine-Arab Wars: Nikephoros II Phokas sacks Tarsus and destroys the Emirate in Cilicia. Arab raids into Anatolia permanently cease. That same year, Byzantine troops under Niketas Chalkoutzes occupy Cyprus, liberating the Greek population from Arab control.
Asia
- Northern Song armies invade the Later Shu Kingdom and force it to surrender.
By topic
Art
- Dome in front of the mihrab, Great Mosque of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain, is built.
Religion
- March 1 – Pope Leo VIII is restored in place of Pope Benedict V.
- October 1 – Pope John XIII succeeds Pope Leo VIII as the 133rd pope.
Births
- Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (d. 1017)
- Alhazen; Arab or Persian scientist and polymath.
- Sweyn I of Denmark
Deaths
- February 22 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy
- July 4 – Pope Benedict V
- Meng Chang, Emperor of Later Shu
- Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi