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Millennium: 1st millennium
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979 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar979
CMLXXIX
Ab urbe condita1732
Armenian calendar428
ԹՎ ՆԻԸ
Assyrian calendar5729
Balinese saka calendar900–901
Bengali calendar386
Berber calendar1929
Buddhist calendar1523
Burmese calendar341
Byzantine calendar6487–6488
Chinese calendar戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
3676 or 3469
    — to —
己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3677 or 3470
Coptic calendar695–696
Discordian calendar2145
Ethiopian calendar971–972
Hebrew calendar4739–4740
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1035–1036
 - Shaka Samvat900–901
 - Kali Yuga4079–4080
Holocene calendar10979
Iranian calendar357–358
Islamic calendar368–369
Japanese calendarTengen 2
(天元2年)
Javanese calendar880–881
Julian calendar979
CMLXXIX
Korean calendar3312
Minguo calendar933 before ROC
民前933年
Nanakshahi calendar−489
Seleucid era1290/1291 AG
Thai solar calendar1521–1522
Tibetan calendar阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1105 or 724 or −48
    — to —
阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1106 or 725 or −47
Clash between the armies of Skleros and Phokas. Miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes.

Year 979 (CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It was the 979th year of the Common Era and the Anno Domini designation, the 979th year of the 1st millennium, the 79th year of the 10th century, and the 10th and last year of the 970s decade.

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