983

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	950s 960s 970s – 980s – 990s 1000s 1010s
Years:	980 981 982 – 983 – 984 985 986

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

983 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	983 CMLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1736
Armenian calendar	432 ԹՎ ՆԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	5733
Bengali calendar	390
Berber calendar	1933
Buddhist calendar	1527
Burmese calendar	345
Byzantine calendar	6491–6492
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3679 or 3619 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3680 or 3620
Coptic calendar	699–700
Discordian calendar	2149
Ethiopian calendar	975–976
Hebrew calendar	4743–4744
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1039–1040
- Shaka Samvat	905–906
- Kali Yuga	4084–4085
Holocene calendar	10983
Iranian calendar	361–362
Islamic calendar	372–373
Japanese calendar	Tengen 6 / Eikan 1 (永観元年)
Julian calendar	983 CMLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3316
Minguo calendar	929 before ROC 民前929年
Seleucid era	1294/1295 AG
Thai solar calendar	1525–1526

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Year 983 (CMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Wood carvers commissioned by China's Song Dynasty complete a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are produced).
The Khazar Empire ends.
Emperor Shengzong leads a Liao Dynasty expeditionary force against the Zubu.
One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1,000 volumes of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.
Fatimid troops under the defecting Hamdanid governor of Homs, Bakjur, attack Aleppo, but are repulsed through the intervention of Byzantine troops.

Otto III becomes King of Germany following the death of Otto II.
Veronese donation during the diet of Verona. Otto gifted the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz