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Originally Posted by Uber-fanatic

Just wanted to post something on the page bearing my birth year...

Funny, on my PC it's page 985. You must be OLD. I guess for you it's page 1970 or more likely 1971?

Year 985 (CMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Europe

* Barcelona is sacked by Al-Mansur.
* Greenland is colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct – see History of Greenland).
* Lady Wulfruna founds the town that later becomes the city of Wolverhampton.
* Henry the Wrangler is restored as Duke of Bavaria.

[edit] Asia

* Rajaraja Chola I (considered by many as the greatest Emperor of the Chola Empire) becomes the Chola Emperor and brings in another golden era of Tamils and of the Chola dynasty.

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[edit] Religion

* August – Pope John XV succeeds Pope John XIV as the 137th pope.

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* Canute the Great (approximate) (d. 1035)
* Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, later sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt
* Radbot, Count of Habsburg (d. 1045)

[edit] Deaths

* Pope Boniface VII