979

979 (CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 1st millennium, the 79th year of the 10th century, and the 10th and last year of the 970s decade. As of the start of 979, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	979 CMLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1732
Armenian calendar	428 ԹՎ ՆԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	5729
Balinese saka calendar	900–901
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	900–901
- Kali Yuga	4079–4080
Holocene calendar	10979
Iranian calendar	357–358
Islamic calendar	368–369
Japanese calendar	Tengen 2 (天元２年)
Javanese calendar	880–881
Julian calendar	979 CMLXXIX
Korean calendar	3312
Minguo calendar	933 before ROC 民前933年
Nanakshahi calendar	−489
Seleucid era	1290/1291 AG
Thai solar calendar	1521–1522
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1105 or 724 or −48     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1106 or 725 or −47

Events

• March 24 – The Battle of Pankalia

Births

• August 29 – Abu Taghlib, Emir of Mosul
• Estrid of the Obotrites, future wife of king Olof Skötkonung of Sweden
• Otto, Count of Vermandois

Deaths

• Iago ab Idwal, King of Gwynedd
• 'Imran