983

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	950s  960s  970s  – 980s –  990s  1000s  1010s
Years:	980 981 982 – 983 – 984 985 986

Year 983 (CMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• Wood carvers paid by China's Song Dynasty complete a carving of the entire Buddhist canon for printing (130,000 total blocks are made).
• The reign of Amir Adhad ad-Dowleh of Buwayhid ends.
• Sharaf ad-Dawla becomes Amir Buwayhid.
• The Khazar Empire ends.
• Emperor Shengzong leads a Liao Dynasty expeditionary force against the Zubu.
• One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is finished in 1,000 volumes of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.

Europe

• Otto III becomes King of Germany after the death of Otto II.
• Veronese donation during the diet of Verona. Otto gave the Rheingau to the archbishopric of Mainz

By topic

Religion

• December – Pope John XIV becomes the 136th pope after Pope Benedict VII died .

Births

• Odo II, Count of Blois
• Wulfnoth Cild

Deaths

• Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 'Adud al-Daula
• Pope Benedict VII
• Mu'ayyad al-Daula
• Patriarch Anthony III of Constantinople