Year 987 (CMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Americas

• Kukulcan conquers Chichen Itza.

Africa

• The Zirids fail to reconquer the western part of the Maghrib which they have recently lost to the Umayyads.^[1]

Europe

• Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, is crowned King of France.
• In Portugal, al-Mansur takes Coimbra, lost to the Christians in 904.^[2] The renewed domination of the central andalusian authorities on the north of the Gharb al-Andalus, leads to the submission of the Christian counts of Portugal to Cordoba. But it also illustrate the limited ability of the Muslims to repopulate or at least govern directly these remote areas.
• The population of Bari revolts against the Byzantines.^[3]

By topic

Art

• Extension of the Prayer hall, Great Mosque of C rdoba, C rdoba, Spain, is made.

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Births

• Liu Yong, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty

Deaths

• May 21 – King Louis V of France

References

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