Editing 987

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Year '''987''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CMLXXXVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Bardas Phokas the Younger|Bardas Phokas]] ('''the Younger''') and [[Bardas Skleros]], two members of the military elite, begin a [[Rebellion of Bardas Phokas the Younger|wide-scale rebellion]] against Emperor [[Basil II]]. They overrun [[Anatolia]], and Phokas declares himself Emperor. Basil applies for military assistance from Prince [[Vladimir the Great]], ruler of [[Kievan Rus']], who agrees to help him and sends a [[Varangians|Varangian]] army (6,000 men).<ref>Raffaele D'Amato (2010). Osprey: MAA - 459: ''The Varangian Guard 988–1453'', p. 6. {{ISBN|978-1-84908-179-5}}.</ref>

==== Europe ====
* [[Almanzor|Al-Mansur]], the ''[[de facto]]'' ruler of [[Al-Andalus]], occupies the city of [[Coimbra]] (modern [[Portugal]]).<ref name=picard2000>{{cite book|last=Picard|first=Christophe|title=Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique|year=2000|publisher=Maisonneuve & Larose|location=Paris|isbn=2-7068-1398-9|page=109}}</ref>
* [[July 3]] &ndash; After the last Carolingian king of [[West Francia]], [[Louis V of France|Louis V]], had died in May, [[Hugh Capet]] is crowned king at [[Noyon]]. 
* [[December]] &ndash; The 15-year-old [[Robert II of France|Robert]] (the son of Hugh Capet) is crowned co-ruler of France around [[Christmas]] at [[Orléans]].<ref>Robert Fawtier, ''The Capetian Kings of France'', transl. Lionel Butler and R.J. Adam, (Macmillan, 1989), p.48.</ref>
* The population of [[Bari]] revolts against the [[Byzantine Empire]].<ref name="occasion of the normans">{{cite journal|last=France|first=John|title=The occasion of the coming of the Normans to southern Italy|journal=Journal of Medieval History|year=1991|volume=17|issue=1|pages=183–203|doi=10.1016/0304-4181(91)90033-H}}</ref>

==== Africa ====
* The [[Zirid dynasty|Zirid Dynasty]] fails to reconquer the western part of the [[Maghreb]] ('''Land of Atlas'''), which they have recently lost to the [[Umayyad Caliphate]].<ref>Gilbert Meynier (2010). ''L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518)''. Paris: La Découverte; p. 45.</ref>


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== Births ==
* [[Al-Mahdi al-Husayn]], Zaidi [[imam]] of [[Yemen]] (d. [[1013]])
* [[Ibn Hayyan]], Moorish writer and [[historian]] (d. [[1075]])
* [[Consort Li (Zhenzong)|Li]], imperial consort of the [[Song dynasty|Song Dynasty]] (d. [[1032]])
* [[Liu Yong (Song dynasty)|Liu Yong]], Chinese [[poetry|poet]] of the Song Dynasty (d. [[1053]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Pietro I Orseolo]], doge of [[Republic of Venice|Venice]] (b. [[928]])
* [[March 30]] &ndash; [[Arnulf II, Count of Flanders|Arnulf II]] ('''the Younger'''), Frankish [[Nobility|nobleman]]
* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Louis V of France|Louis V]], king of the [[West Francia|West Frankish Kingdom]] 
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ali]], Ikhshidid governor<ref>{{cite book | title = Islamic History Through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-century Ikhshidid Coinage | first = Jere L. | last = Bacharach |author-link=Jere L. Bacharach| publisher = American University in Cairo | location = Cairo | year = 2006 | isbn = 9774249305 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fNLKAbXEmgMC | pages=60–61}}</ref>
* [[July 21]] &ndash; [[Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou|Geoffrey I]] ('''Greymantle'''), Frankish nobleman
* [[September 8]] (approximate date) &ndash; [[Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois]], Frankish nobleman<ref>Detlev Schwennicke, ''Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten'', Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 49</ref> 
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Shen Lun]], Chinese [[scholar-official]]

== References ==
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