957

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
957 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar957
CMLVII
Ab urbe condita1710
Armenian calendar406
ԹՎ ՆԶ
Assyrian calendar5707
Balinese saka calendar878–879
Bengali calendar364
Berber calendar1907
Buddhist calendar1501
Burmese calendar319
Byzantine calendar6465–6466
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3654 or 3447
    — to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3655 or 3448
Coptic calendar673–674
Discordian calendar2123
Ethiopian calendar949–950
Hebrew calendar4717–4718
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1013–1014
 - Shaka Samvat878–879
 - Kali Yuga4057–4058
Holocene calendar10957
Iranian calendar335–336
Islamic calendar345–346
Japanese calendarTenryaku 11 / Tentoku 1
(天徳元年)
Javanese calendar857–858
Julian calendar957
CMLVII
Korean calendar3290
Minguo calendar955 before ROC
民前955年
Nanakshahi calendar−511
Seleucid era1268/1269 AG
Thai solar calendar1499–1500
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
1083 or 702 or −70
    — to —
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1084 or 703 or −69
Eadwig, king of England (r. 955–959)

Year 957 (CMLVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Caspian Sea[edit]

  • 957 Caspian Sea earthquake. It took place in the Caspian Sea and its vicinity. The earthquake is mentioned by several Arab and Syriac chronicle writers, who claimed that it mainly affected the region of Persian Iraq. The initial shocks lasted 40 days, but ceased for a while. The main earthquake then occurred, damaging the cities of Ray, Talikan, and Hulwan. A reported number of 150 villages were supposedly destroyed by the earthquake. [2]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Dunstan" Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ Antonopoulos, 1980
  3. ^ Ibrāhīm ibn Hilāl Ṣābī (1995). Kitāb at-Tājī of Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin al Katib as-Sabi. Pakistan Historical Society. p. 202.
  4. ^ André Vauchez; Michael Lapidge (2000). Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages: A-J. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Incorporated. p. 254. ISBN 9781579582821.

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