In the 2002 – 3 operating year, franchised services provided 976 million journeys totalling 24. 7 billion passenger miles of travel, an increase over 1986 – 7 of 32 % in journeys ( from 738 million ) and 29 % in passenger-miles ( from 30. 8 billion ).

* Imperial Prince Motonaga ( 元長親王 ) ( 901 – 976 )

* 976 – Emperor Sanjō, of Japan ( d. 1017 )

* 1017 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan ( b. 976 )

* Leland, Conley Barrows Général Faidherbe, the Maurel and Prom Company, and French Expansion in Senegal, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974, XXI-t. 1, pp. 1 – 519 ; t. 2, pages 520 – 976, ( thèse )

* John I Tzimisces, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ( lived 925 – 976, reigned 969 – 976 )

* Basil II, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, ( lived 958 – 1025, reigned 976 – 1025 )

* Emperor Taizu of Song, founder of the Chinese Song Dynasty ( lived March 21, 927 – November 14, 976, reigned 960 – 976 )

* Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria ( lived 958 – 1014, reigned 976 – 1014 )

Originally from Bamberg in Franconia, now northern Bavaria, an apparent branch of the Babenbergs or Babenberger went on to rule Austria as counts of the march and dukes from 976 – 1248, before the rise of the house of Habsburg.

Basil II (, Basileios II ; 958 – 15 December 1025 ) was a Byzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty who reigned from 10 January 976 to 15 December 1025.

Emperor Taizu of Song ( r. 960 – 976 ) unified China through conquering other lands during his reign, ending the upheaval of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

Emperor Taizu of Song ( r. 960 – 976 ), a court portrait painting

* Folcmar ( 976 – 990 )

Finally, when John died on 10 January 976, Basil II took the throne as senior emperor.

After John I Tzimiskes died on 11 January 976, the Cometopuli launched an assault along the whole border.

* John I Tzimiskes ( c. 925 – 976 ), Byzantine Emperor

In the 2004 election, George W. Bush received 33, 976 votes, or 77 % of the county's total, more than three times the 9, 895 votes ( 22 %) his opponent, John Kerry, received.

With the beginning of the Byzantine offensives in the East and the Balkans in the 10th century, especially under the warrior-emperors Nikephoros II ( r. 963 – 969 ), John I Tzimiskes ( r. 969 – 976 ) and Basil II ( r. 976 – 1025 ), newly gained territories were also incorporated into themes, although these were generally smaller than the original themes established in the 7th and 8th centuries.

John I Tzimiskes or Tzimisces, (, Iōannēs I Tzimiskēs ; circa 925 – January 10, 976 ) was Byzantine Emperor from December 11, 969 to January 10, 976.

The Catepanate of Ras was established between 971 – 976, during the rule of John Tzimiskes ( r. 969 – 976 ).

The title of " Immortals " was again revived twice under the Byzantine Empire, first as an elite heavy cavalry unit under John I Tzimiskes ( r. 969 – 976 ) and then by Nikephoritzes, the chief minister of Emperor Michael VII ( r. 1071 – 1081 ), as the core of a new central field army of the following the disastrous defeat of Manzikert by the Seljuk Turks in 1071.

* John I Tzimiskes ( Ιωάννης Α ')( 925-976, ruled 969 – 976 ) – general, brother-in-law of Romanos II, regent for Basil II and Constantine VIII

* ROBARTS, John 976

During the same period, the Byzantine fleet was active in the Black Sea as well: a Rus ' fleet that was threatening Constantinople in 941 was destroyed by 15 hastily assembled old ships equipped with Greek fire, and the navy played an important role in the Rus '– Byzantine War of 970 – 971, when John I Tzimiskes ( 969 – 976 ) sent 300 ships to blockade the Kievan Rus ' from retreating over the Danube.

On the night of 10 and 11 December 969, his nephew John I Tzimiskes ( 969 – 976 ) crossed the Bosphorus in a storm, was smuggled into the palace and lowed into the Imperial chambers where he woke and killed his uncle.

* John I Tzimiskes ( Ιωάννης Α ')( 925-976, ruled 969 – 976 ) – successful general, brother-in-law of Romanos II, lover of Nikephoros's wife but banned from marriage, regent for Basil II and Constantine VIII ( Origin: Armenian )

Carantania-Carinthia was established again as an autonomous administrative unit in 976, when Emperor Otto I, " the Great ", after deposing the Duke of Bavaria, Henry II, " the Quarreller ", split the lands held by him and made Carinthia the sixth duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, but old Carantania never developed into a unified realm.

Total World War I dead were 1, 115, 597 ( UK and former colonies 886, 939 ; Undivided India 74, 187 ; Canada 64, 976 ; Australia 61, 966 ; New Zealand 18, 052 ; South Africa 9, 477 These figures also include the Merchant Navy.

In 976 Leopold I, a member of the Babenberg family, who was a count in the Donnegau, is described as count of the Eastern March, a district not more than 60 miles in breadth on the eastern frontier of Bavaria which grew into the duchy of Austria.

Leopold, who received the mark as a reward for his fidelity to the emperor Otto II during the Bavarian rising in 976, extended its area at the expense of the Hungarians, and was succeeded in 994 by his son Henry I. Henry, who continued his father's policy, was followed in 1018 by his brother Adalbert and in 1055 by his nephew, Ernest, whose marked loyalty to the emperors Henry II and Henry III was rewarded by many tokens of favour.

#( probably ) Theodoric I of Wettin, d. 976

' The area around Melk was given to Margrave Leopold I in the year 976 to serve as a buffer between the Magyars ( called " Turks " in that time's sources ) to east and Bavaria to the west.

The Patria was written during the reign of Basil II ( 976 – 1025 ) and revised during the Alexios I Komnenos ( 1081 – 1118 ).

By the time Arnulf attained his majority in 976, Flanders had lost some of the southern territory acquired by Arnulf I.

* 976: William I Count of Provence, lord of Grimaud, hunting Muslims and he built a tower in 980 at the current location of the tower Suffren.

He flourished in Herat of Persia ( Iran ), under the Samanid prince Mansur I ibn Nuh, who ruled from 961 to 976.

#( probably ) Dietrich I, Count of Wettin, d. 976

#( probably ) Dietrich I, Count of Wettin, d. 976

According to religion, there were 24, 976 Roman Catholics, 2, 943 Orthodox, 2, 340 Jews, 594 Reformations, 385 Evangelicans, 122 Greek Catholics and 28 others.

Since the Bulgars had been raiding Byzantine lands since 976, the Byzantine government sought to cause dissension amongst them by first allowing the escape of their captive emperor Boris II of Bulgaria.

When the Byzantine emperor Basil II ascended the throne in 976, he made the destruction of independent Bulgaria his first ambition.

In 976, the Croatian king Stjepan Držislav took Pag from the Byzantine authority and appointed a Croatian district Prefect as the administrator of the town.

A just ruler and a friend of the church, David allied with the Byzantine Emperor Basil II to defeat the rebel Byzantine noble Bardas Scleros ( 976 – 979 ) and was rewarded with extensive lands that made him the most powerful ruler in the south Caucasus: his state included several Georgian and Armenian provinces up to the Lake Van.

In 976, a rebellion led by Bardas Skleros broke out in the Asian provinces of the Byzantine Empire, the greatest upheaval of the emperor Basil II ’ s early reign.

976 until the fall of Bulgaria under Byzantine rule in 1018.

At the age of three, Bagrat was surrendered by his father as a hostage to the Byzantine emperor Basil II ( r. 976 – 1025 ) as a price for George ’ s defeat in the 1022 war with the Byzantines.

c. 980 – c. 1010 ) was a high-ranking Byzantine official and general during the reign of Emperor Basil II ( r. 976 – 1025 ).

The Byzantine emperor Basil II ( r. 976 – 1025 ).