Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades: 930s  940s  950s  - 960s -  970s  980s  990s
Years: 962 963 964 - 965 - 966 967 968
965 by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
965 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 965
CMLXV
Ab urbe condita 1718
Armenian calendar 414
ԹՎ ՆԺԴ
Bahá'í calendar -879 – -878
Berber calendar 1915
Buddhist calendar 1509
Burmese calendar 327
Byzantine calendar 6473 – 6474
Chinese calendar 甲子年十一月廿六日
(3601/3661-11-26) 乙丑年十二月初六日
(3602/3662-12-6)
Coptic calendar 681 – 682
Ethiopian calendar 957 – 958
Hebrew calendar 4725 – 4726
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1020 – 1021
 - Shaka Samvat 887 – 888
 - Kali Yuga 4066 – 4067
Holocene calendar 10965
Iranian calendar 343 – 344
Islamic calendar 353 – 355
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3298
Thai solar calendar 1508

965 was a year in the 10th century.

Events

By Place

Europe

• The Khazar fortress of Sarkel falls to the Kievan Rus.
• Byzantine-Arab Wars: Nikephoros Sacks Tarsus and destroys the Emirate in Cilicia. Arab raids into Anatolia permanently cease. That same year, Byzantine troops occupy Cyprus, liberating the Greek population from Arab control.

Asia

• Northern Song armies invade the Later Shu Kingdom and force it to surrender.

By Topic

Religion

• March 1 — Pope Leo VIII is restored in place of Pope Benedict V.
• October 1 — Pope John XIII succeeds Pope Leo VIII as the 133rd pope.

Births

• Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (d. 1017)
• Sweyn I of Denmark

Deaths

• February 22 — Odo, Duke of Burgundy
• July 4 — Pope Benedict V
• Meng Chang, Emperor of Later Shu