| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 979 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 979 CMLXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1732 |
| Armenian calendar | 428 ԹՎ ՆԻԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5729 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 900–901 |
| Bengali calendar | 386 |
| Berber calendar | 1929 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1523 |
| Burmese calendar | 341 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6487–6488 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3676 or 3469 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3677 or 3470 |
| Coptic calendar | 695–696 |
| Discordian calendar | 2145 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 971–972 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4739–4740 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1035–1036 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 900–901 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4079–4080 |
| Holocene calendar | 10979 |
| Iranian calendar | 357–358 |
| Islamic calendar | 368–369 |
| Japanese calendar | Tengen 2 (天元２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 880–881 |
| Julian calendar | 979 CMLXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3312 |
| Minguo calendar | 933 before ROC 民前933年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −489 |
| Seleucid era | 1290/1291 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1521–1522 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1105 or 724 or −48 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1106 or 725 or −47 |
Year 979 (CMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It was the 979th year of the Common Era and the Anno Domini designation, the 979th year of the 1st millennium, the 79th year of the 10th century, and the 10th and last year of the 970s decade.