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958

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

• 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]

• 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.

• 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]

• 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.

• 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)

• 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]