995
Year 995 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.Events
By place
- Arab–Byzantine War: Emperor Basil II launches a counter-campaign against the Fatimid Caliphate. He leads a Byzantine expeditionary army 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 which is the seat of its eponymous Patriarch.
Europe
- King Eric VI 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, duke of Bohemia, storms Libice Castle and massacres the members of the Slavník Dynasty.
- Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway and builds the country's first Christian church.
- King Kenneth II is murdered at a banquet by Lady Finella in Fettercairn. He is succeeded by his nephew Constantine III as ruler of Alba.
- Uhtred, a son of Ealdorman Waltheof I of Northumbria, establishes an episcopal see at Durham and moves the monastic community of Chester-le-Street there.
Asia
- Goryeo-Khitan War: Negotiations led by the Korean diplomat Seo Hui 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 withdraws while Seongjong orders the Korean border defenses strengthened.
Births
- Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and writer
- Cnut, king of Denmark, Norway and England
- Dominic Loricatus, Italian priest and hermit
- Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine
- Herman II, archbishop of Cologne
- Hemma of Gurk, German noblewoman
- Ogive of Luxembourg, countess of Flanders
- Olaf II Haraldsson, king of Norway
- Reginar V, French nobleman
- Shaykh Tusi, Persian Shia scholar
- William I, Norman nobleman
Deaths
- March 30 - Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian statesman
- May 10 - Baldwin I, bishop of Utrecht
- May 16 - Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese nobleman
- June 13 - Fujiwara no Michikane, Japanese nobleman
- Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad, Afrighid ruler of Khwarezm
- Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiyah
- Bernard I, Frankish nobleman
- Egill Skallagrímsson, Viking poet
- Eric VI, Viking king of Sweden
- García Fernández, count of Castile and Álava
- Gebhard II, bishop of Constance
- Gerberga of Lorraine, Frankish noblewoman
- Haakon Sigurdsson, Viking ruler of Norway
- Henry II, duke of Bavaria
- Herbert III, Frankish nobleman
- Kenneth II, king of Alba
- Lady Finella, Scottish noblewoman and assassin
- Michitsuna no Haha, Japanese female poet
- Mstivoj, Obodrite prince
- Song, empress of the Song Dynasty
