Years: 970 971 972 973 - 974 - 975 976 977 978

Decades: 940s 950s 960s - 970s - 980s 990s 1000s

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

Events

• Antipope Boniface VII succeeds Pope Benedict VI.
• The Byzantine Empire retakes Syria including Aleppo from the Abbasids.
• Al-Ta'i succeeds Al-Muti as Abbasid caliph of Baghdad.
• Fuzhou builds new city walls.
• An abbey is founded at the site of Mönchengladbach.

Births

Deaths

• Pope Benedict VI