Year 964 (CMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
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964 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar964
CMLXIV
Ab urbe condita1717
Armenian calendar413
ԹՎ ՆԺԳ
Assyrian calendar5714
Balinese saka calendar885–886
Bengali calendar371
Berber calendar1914
Buddhist calendar1508
Burmese calendar326
Byzantine calendar6472–6473
Chinese calendar癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3661 or 3454
    — to —
甲子年 (Wood Rat)
3662 or 3455
Coptic calendar680–681
Discordian calendar2130
Ethiopian calendar956–957
Hebrew calendar4724–4725
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1020–1021
 - Shaka Samvat885–886
 - Kali Yuga4064–4065
Holocene calendar10964
Iranian calendar342–343
Islamic calendar352–353
Japanese calendarŌwa 4 / Kōhō 1
(康保元年)
Javanese calendar864–865
Julian calendar964
CMLXIV
Korean calendar3297
Minguo calendar948 before ROC
民前948年
Nanakshahi calendar−504
Seleucid era1275/1276 AG
Thai solar calendar1506–1507
Tibetan calendar阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1090 or 709 or −63
    — to —
阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
1091 or 710 or −62
Pope Benedict V (May 22–June 23)

Events

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Byzantine Empire

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Europe

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  • Spring – King Adalbert II returns to the mainland of Italy, and occupies the environs of Spoleto. Emperor Otto I ('the Great') leaves Rome with his army, and lays siege to the fortress city of Spoleto.
  • Otto I proceeds on campaign in Italy, remaining in the environs of Lucca. In the fall he leaves plague-wracked Tuscany, and is forced to retreat to Liguria. His rearguard is attacked by Adalbert II.

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Religion

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  • February – Pope John XII returns with his supporters to Rome. He convenes a synod that deposes Antipope Leo VIII who finds refuge at the court of Otto I. John dispatches a delegation under Otgar, bishop of Speyer, to negotiate an agreement.
  • May 14Pope John XII dies (rumoured to be by apoplexy, or at the hands of a cuckolded husband, during an illicit sexual liaison) after a 9-year reign. The Romans elect Benedict V, who is acclaimed by the city militia. He begins his pontificate as the 131st pope of the Catholic Church.
  • June 23 – Benedict V is deposed and ecclesiastically degraded after Otto I besieges Rome. He starves the Romans into submission and restores Leo VIII to the papal throne.

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ W. Treadgold. A History of the Byzantine State and Society, p. 948.