971

This article is about the year 971. For the number, see 971 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	940s 950s 960s – 970s – 980s 990s 1000s
Years:	968 969 970 – 971 – 972 973 974

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

971 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	971 CMLXXI
Ab urbe condita	1724
Armenian calendar	420 ԹՎ ՆԻ
Assyrian calendar	5721
Bengali calendar	378
Berber calendar	1921
Buddhist calendar	1515
Burmese calendar	333
Byzantine calendar	6479–6480
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3667 or 3607 — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3668 or 3608
Coptic calendar	687–688
Discordian calendar	2137
Ethiopian calendar	963–964
Hebrew calendar	4731–4732
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1027–1028
- Shaka Samvat	893–894
- Kali Yuga	4072–4073
Holocene calendar	10971
Iranian calendar	349–350
Islamic calendar	360–361
Japanese calendar	Tenroku 2 (天禄２年)
Julian calendar	971 CMLXXI
Korean calendar	3304
Minguo calendar	941 before ROC 民前941年
Seleucid era	1282/1283 AG
Thai solar calendar	1513–1514

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Year 971 (CMLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Kenneth II of Scotland succeeds Culen as King, though he will not be sole king until 977.
Saint Swithun's body is moved into an indoor shrine (he was previously buried outside). The ceremony is said to have been marred by 40 days of torrential rain.
Basileus John Tzimisces defeats Sviatoslav I of Kiev in the Fifth Rus'-Byzantine War (see Battle of Dorostolon).
The Bulgarian emperor Boris II abdicates in Constantinople and John Tzimisces announces the annexation of Bulgaria. That event leads to an almost 50-year Byzantine-Bulgarian war until the fall of Bulgaria.

January 23 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the 10th century.