995

995 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	995; CMXCV
Ab urbe condita	1748
Armenian calendar	444; ԹՎ ՆԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	5745
Balinese saka calendar	916–917
Bengali calendar	402
Berber calendar	1945
Buddhist calendar	1539
Burmese calendar	357
Byzantine calendar	6503–6504
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse); 3692 or 3485; — to —; 乙未年 (Wood Goat); 3693 or 3486
Coptic calendar	711–712
Discordian calendar	2161
Ethiopian calendar	987–988
Hebrew calendar	4755–4756
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1051–1052
- Shaka Samvat	916–917
- Kali Yuga	4095–4096
Holocene calendar	10995
Iranian calendar	373–374
Islamic calendar	384–385
Japanese calendar	Shōryaku 6 / Chōtoku 1; (長徳元年)
Javanese calendar	896–897
Julian calendar	995; CMXCV
Korean calendar	3328
Minguo calendar	917 before ROC; 民前917年
Nanakshahi calendar	−473
Seleucid era	1306/1307 AG
Thai solar calendar	1537–1538
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年; (male Wood-Horse); 1121 or 740 or −32; — to —; 阴木羊年; (female Wood-Goat); 1122 or 741 or −31

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century; 10th century ; 11th century;
Decades:	970s; 980s; 990s ; 1000s; 1010s;
Years:	992; 993; 994; 995 ; 996; 997; 998;

Year 995 (CMXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

17 May - Fujiwara no Michitaka (imperial regent) dies.
3 June: Fujiwara no Michikane gains power and becomes Regent.
10 June: Fujiwara no Michikane dies.
30 August - Retainers of Takaie clash with retainers of Michinaga, on the main street of Kyoto.
4 September - Michinaga’s escort, Hata no Hisatada, is killed by Takaie’s followers.
15 October - Michinaga becomes Chief of the Fujiwara Clan.

Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Basil II launches a counter-campaign against the Fatimid Caliphate. He leads a Byzantine expeditionary army (13,000 men) to aid the Hamdanid emir Sa'id al-Dawla, and crosses Asia Minor in only sixteen days. Basil lifts the siege of Aleppo, and takes over the Orontes Valley. He incorporates Syria into the Byzantine Empire (including the larger city of Antioch) which is the seat of its eponymous Patriarch.^[1]

King Eric VI (the Victorious) dies at Uppsala, after a 25-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Olof Skötkonung, as the first baptized Christian ruler of Sweden.
September 28 – Boleslaus II (the Pious), duke of Bohemia, storms Libice Castle and massacres the members of the Slavník Dynasty.^[2]
Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway (until 1000) and builds the country's first Christian church.
Malachy captures Dublin for the third time.

King Kenneth II is murdered at a banquet by Lady Finella in Fettercairn. He is succeeded by his nephew Constantine III (a son of the late King Cuilén) as ruler of Alba (Scotland).

Uhtred (the Bold), a son of Ealdorman Waltheof I of Northumbria, establishes an episcopal see at Durham and moves the monastic community of Chester-le-Street there.

Goryeo-Khitan War: Negotiations led by the Korean diplomat Sŏ Hŭi prevents a fullscale invasion of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty. King Seongjong accepts Liao's demands – and agrees to end the alliance with the Chinese Song Dynasty. Goryeo becomes a Liao tributary state, the Khitan army (60,000 men) withdraws while Seongjong orders the Korean border defenses strengthened.^[3]

995 Balu earthquake. It reportedly affected the Armenian areas of Balu, Cop'k (or Covk'), Palnatun (or Palin), and the districts of Hasteank and Xorjean. The areas affected were districts in what is currently the border area between Armenia and Turkey.^[4]

^ Read, Piers Paul (1999). The Templars. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 0-297-84267-6.
^ "Boleslaus II the Pious". www.kralovskacesta.cz. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
^ Twitchett, Denis; Tietze, Klaus-Peter (1994). The Cambridge History of China, Volume 6, pp. 43–153. ISBN 0-521-24331-9.
^ Guidoboni, Traina, 1995, p. 126-127