979

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	940s 950s 960s – 970s – 980s 990s 1000s
Years:	976 977 978 – 979 – 980 981 982

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

979 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	979 CMLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1732
Armenian calendar	428 ԹՎ ՆԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	5729
Bengali calendar	386
Berber calendar	1929
Buddhist calendar	1523
Burmese calendar	341
Byzantine calendar	6487–6488
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3675 or 3615 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3676 or 3616
Coptic calendar	695–696
Discordian calendar	2145
Ethiopian calendar	971–972
Hebrew calendar	4739–4740
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1035–1036
- Shaka Samvat	901–902
- Kali Yuga	4080–4081
Holocene calendar	10979
Iranian calendar	357–358
Islamic calendar	368–369
Japanese calendar	Tengen 2 (天元２年)
Julian calendar	979 CMLXXIX
Korean calendar	3312
Minguo calendar	933 before ROC 民前933年
Seleucid era	1290/1291 AG
Thai solar calendar	1521–1522

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Year 979 (CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Foundation of the city of Brussels: a 'castrum' on an island on the river Senne (Brabant, Belgium).

Jawhar as-Siqilli is dismissed as Vizir of Egypt, and replaced by Yaqub ibn Killis.

March 24 – The Battle of Pankalia: a combined Byzantine–Georgian force defeats Bardas Sklerus, an organizer of the large-scale rebellion in the Byzantine Empire's Asian provinces.
The Song Dynasty destroys the Northern Han State.
August 1 – Battle of Gaoliang River: The Liao Dynasty defeats Song Dynasty forces near present-day Beijing.