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<catset>Category="985"</catset><right><p><table cellpadding=3 style="margin-left: 15px;"><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b>Years:</b></small><br><a href="981">981</a> <a href="982">982</a> <a href="983">983</a> <a href="984">984</a> - 985 - <a href="986">986</a> <a href="987">987</a> <a href="988">988</a> <a href="989">989</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=2><small><b><a href="List of decades">Decades</a>:</b></small><br><a href="950s">950s</a> <a href="960s">960s</a> <a href="970s">970s</a> - <b><a href="980s">980s</a></b> - <a href="990s">990s</a> <a href="1000s">1000s</a> <a href="1010s">1010s</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center><small><b><a href="Centuries">Centuries</a>:</b></small><br><a href="9th century">9th century</a> - <b><a href="10th century">10th century</a></b> - <a href="11th century">11th century</a></td></tr></table><p></right><p><b>Events</b> <ul> <li> <a href="Barcelona">Barcelona</a> sacked by Al-Mansur <li> <a href="Greenland">Greenland</a> colonized by <a href="Iceland">Icelandic</a> <a href="Viking">Viking</a> <a href="Erik the Red (comics)">Erik the Red</a> (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct - see <a href="History of Greenland">History of Greenland</a>) <li> <a href="Lady Wulfruna">Lady Wulfruna</a> founded the town that later became the city of <a href="Wolverhampton">Wolverhampton</a> <li> <a href="Henry II, Duke of Bavaria">Henry the Wrangler</a> restored as <a href="List of rulers of Bavaria">Duke of Bavaria</a> <li> <a href="Rajaraja Chola I">Rajaraja Chola I</a> becomes the Chola Emperor and brings in another golden era of <a href="Cholas">Chola</a> Empire </ul><p><b>Births</b> <ul> <li><a href="Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah">Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah</a>, later sixth <a href="Fatimid">Fatimid</a> <a href="Caliph">Caliph</a> in Egypt. </ul><p><b>Deaths</b> <ul> <li><a href="Antipope Boniface VII">Pope Boniface VII</a> </ul>