994

994 (CMXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	960s  970s  980s  – 990s –  1000s  1010s  1020s
Years:	991 992 993 – 994 – 995 996 997

Europe

• Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty.
• Otto III reaches his majority and begins to rule Germany.
• Aethelred II pays £16,000 of Danegeld to Olaf Trygvasson.

Middle East

• September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: Fatimid victory over a Byzantine army led by Michael Bourtzes

Births

• November 7 – Ibn Hazm, Arab philosopher (d. 1069)
• Simeon, first Norman abbot of Ely Abbey
• Imam Bayhaqi Scholar of Islamic Faith

Deaths

• Margrave Leopold I of Austria
• Sigeric the Serious
• John Weir the Great, King of the Nords

994 Media

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  King Otto III (left) and Heribert of Cologne