What is 990?
{{Year nav|990}} {{Year in various calendars|990}} {{Year article header|990}} == Events == * [[January 1]] – [[Kievan Rus']] adopts the [[Julian calendar]]. * Construction of the [[Al-Hakim Mosque]] begins in [[Cairo]]. * The [[Pax Ecclesiae]], an edict by the church in southern [[France]] attempting to outlaw acts of war against non-combatants and the clergy, is promulgated. == Births == * [[Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (approximate) * [[Edmund II of England]], (approximate) * [[Mieszko II of Poland]], king of [[Poland]] from [[1025]] to [[1031]], duke from [[1032]] to [[1034]]. * [[Yorimichi]], regent to the Japanese emperor from [[1017]] to [[1020]] and from [[1020]] to [[1068]]. *[[Johannes Skotus]], Bishop of [[Mecklenburg]] (approximate) == Deaths == * [[Kaneie]], regent to the Japanese emperor from [[986]] to 990. * [[Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi|Al-Uqlidisi]], Middle-East mathematician. * [[Dunash ben Labrat]] [[Category:990| ]]