974
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 940s 950s 960s – 970s – 980s 990s 1000s |
| Years: | 971 972 973 – 974 – 975 976 977 |
| 974 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 974 CMLXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1727 |
| Armenian calendar | 423 ԹՎ ՆԻԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5724 |
| Bengali calendar | 381 |
| Berber calendar | 1924 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1518 |
| Burmese calendar | 336 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6482–6483 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3670 or 3610 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3671 or 3611 |
| Coptic calendar | 690–691 |
| Discordian calendar | 2140 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 966–967 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4734–4735 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1030–1031 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 896–897 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4075–4076 |
| Holocene calendar | 10974 |
| Iranian calendar | 352–353 |
| Islamic calendar | 363–364 |
| Japanese calendar | Ten'en 2 (天延２年) |
| Julian calendar | 974 CMLXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3307 |
| Minguo calendar | 938 before ROC 民前938年 |
| Seleucid era | 1285/1286 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1516–1517 |
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Year 974 (CMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- A great earthquake in England.[1]
Africa
- The Carmathians are defeated in Egypt by Jawhar as-Siqilli; Fatimid rule is consolidated there.
- An offensive by the Spain-based Umayyads, brings the Maghribi Idrissid dynasty to an end.[2]
Asia
- The Byzantine Empire retakes Syria (including Aleppo) from the Abbasids.
- Al-Ta'i succeeds Al-Muti as Abbasid caliph of Baghdad.
- Fuzhou builds new city walls.
- The Liao Dynasty exchanges ambassadors with the Song Dynasty.
- In their offensive against the Southern Tang state, the Song Dynasty Chinese create and defend a long floating pontoon bridge across the Yangzi River, to secure military supply lines traveling to the other side.
By topic
Religion
- October – Pope Benedict VII succeeds Pope Benedict VI as the 135th pope.
- Antipope Boniface VII is declared pope.
- Benedictine Abbey in England is founded.
- An abbey is founded at the site of Mönchengladbach.