Years: 981 982 983 984 - 985 - 986 987 988 989

Decades: 950s 960s 970s - 980s - 990s 1000s 1010s

Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century

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

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