976

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	940s 950s 960s – 970s – 980s 990s 1000s
Years:	973 974 975 – 976 – 977 978 979

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

976 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	976 CMLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1729
Armenian calendar	425 ԹՎ ՆԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5726
Bengali calendar	383
Berber calendar	1926
Buddhist calendar	1520
Burmese calendar	338
Byzantine calendar	6484–6485
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3672 or 3612 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3673 or 3613
Coptic calendar	692–693
Discordian calendar	2142
Ethiopian calendar	968–969
Hebrew calendar	4736–4737
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1032–1033
- Shaka Samvat	898–899
- Kali Yuga	4077–4078
Holocene calendar	10976
Iranian calendar	354–355
Islamic calendar	365–366
Japanese calendar	Ten'en 4 / Jōgen 1 (貞元元年)
Julian calendar	976 CMLXXVI
Korean calendar	3309
Minguo calendar	936 before ROC 民前936年
Seleucid era	1287/1288 AG
Thai solar calendar	1518–1519

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Year 976 (CMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Brian Boru is inaugurated as King of Munster.
Samuil of Bulgaria starts his reign as Tsar.
Leopold of Babenberg is appointed as Margrave of Austria. The Babenberg family rules Austria until 1246.

The Yuelu Academy is founded during the early Song Dynasty of China.
Zhang Sixun, a Chinese astronomer and engineer, employs the use of liquid mercury in order for the escapement mechanism of his astronomical clock to function and for metal parts not to rust by using hydraulics (water) or to freeze in winter.