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Year 958 (CMLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	930s 940s 950s 960s 970s
Years:	955 956 957 958 959 960 961

958 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	958 CMLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1711
Armenian calendar	407 ԹՎ ՆԷ
Assyrian calendar	5708
Balinese saka calendar	879–880
Bengali calendar	365
Berber calendar	1908
Buddhist calendar	1502
Burmese calendar	320
Byzantine calendar	6466–6467
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3655 or 3448 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3656 or 3449
Coptic calendar	674–675
Discordian calendar	2124
Ethiopian calendar	950–951
Hebrew calendar	4718–4719
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1014–1015
- Shaka Samvat	879–880
- Kali Yuga	4058–4059
Holocene calendar	10958
Iranian calendar	336–337
Islamic calendar	346–347
Japanese calendar	Tentoku2 (天徳2年)
Javanese calendar	858–859
Julian calendar	958 CMLVIII
Korean calendar	3291
Minguo calendar	954 before ROC 民前954年
Nanakshahi calendar	−510
Seleucid era	1269/1270 AG
Thai solar calendar	1500–1501
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1084 or 703 or −69 — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1085 or 704 or −68

Events

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By place

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Byzantine Empire

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October / November – Battle of Raban: The Byzantines under John Tzimiskes defeat the Hamdanid forces in northern Syria. Emir Sayf al-Dawla is forced to retreat – many of his court companions and ghilman fall in pursuit, while over 1,700 of his Turk cavalry are captured and paraded in the streets of Constantinople.^[1]

Europe

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King Berengar II invades the March of Verona, which is under control of the dukes of Bavaria, and lay siege to Count Adalbert AttoatCanossa Castle (northern Italy). Berengar sends a Lombard expeditionary force under his son Guy of Ivrea against Theobald II, duke of Spoleto. He captures Spoleto and Camerino.

Africa

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The Fatimid general Abu al-Hasan Jawhar ibn Abd Allah takes Ifgan, the capital of the rebellious Kharijite Banu Ya'la tribe. In the following two years, Jawhar conquers most of the north of modern-day Morocco and Algeria. In particular, he conquers the cities of Tangier, Sijilmasa and Tlemcen.^[2]

Asia

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King Ksemagupta dies of a fever after a hunting party. He is succeeded by his youngest son Abhimanyu II. Queen Didda, the widow of Ksemagupta, becomes regent and the de facto ruler of Kashmir (modern India).
Emperor Chai Rong of the Later Zhou invades the Northern Han and the Khitan Empire in the Sixteen Prefectures (northern China), but is defeated.

Births

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Basil II (Bulgar Slayer), Byzantine emperor (d. 1025)
Otto-William, count of Burgundy (approximate date)
Rinchen Zangpo, Tibetan Buddhist monk (d. 1055)
Samuel, tsar of the Bulgarian Empire (approximate date)
Vladimir I (the Great), Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1015)
Yang Yanzhao, general of the Song Dynasty (d. 1014)
Yaropolk I, Grand Prince of Kiev (approximate date)

Deaths

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May – Ibn Durustawayh, Persian grammarian, lexicographer and student of the Quran and hadith (b. 872)
June 2 – Oda (the Good), archbishop of Canterbury
September 17 – Li Jingsui, Chinese prince (b. 920)
September 18 – Liu Sheng, Chinese emperor (b. 920)
October 15 – Toda, queen of Pamplona (b. 876)
date unknown
- Ammar ibn Ali al-Kalbi, Fatimid military commander
- Faifne an Filí, Irish poet and ollamh ("professor")
- Finshneachta Ua Cuill, Irish poet
- Fujiwara no Kiyotada, Japanese poet
- Lashkarwarz, Daylamite military commander
- Mastalus II, duke and patricianofAmalfi (Italy)
- Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto, Japanese waka poet
- Qingliang Wenyi, Chinese Buddhist monk
- Sumbat I, king of Iberia (Georgia)
probable
- Drogo, duke of Brittany^[3]
- Gorm the Old, king of Denmark. He was born before 900 and may have died as late as 964.^[4]

References

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^ Shepard, Jonathan (2010). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, Volume 3, pp.151–152. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533403-6.

^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 42.

^ LaChronique de Nantes pages 109-110 indique qu’il aurait été ébouillanté dans son bain par sa nourrice sur ordre de Foulque II d'Anjou

^ "The Royal Lineage". The Danish Monarchy. July 6, 2015. Archived from the original on July 6, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2019.

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