Centuries:	9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades:	930s  940s  950s  - 960s -  970s  980s  990s
Years:	962 963 964 - 965 - 966 967 968

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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) — to — 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
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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