985 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Barcelona sacked by Al-Mansur
• Greenland 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 founded the town that later became the city of Wolverhampton

Births

• Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, later sixth Fatimid Caliph in Egypt.

Deaths

• Pope Boniface VII