944
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This article is about the year 944. For the car, see Porsche 944. For the magazine, see 944 Magazine.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s |
| Years: | 941 942 943 – 944 – 945 946 947 |
| 944 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 944 CMXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1697 |
| Armenian calendar | 393 ԹՎ ՅՂԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5694 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -900–-899 |
| Bengali calendar | 351 |
| Berber calendar | 1894 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1488 |
| Burmese calendar | 306 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6452–6453 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸卯年十二月初三日 (3580/3640-12-3) — to —
甲辰年十二月十四日(3581/3641-12-14) |
| Coptic calendar | 660–661 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 936–937 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4704–4705 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1000–1001 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 866–867 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4045–4046 |
| Holocene calendar | 10944 |
| Iranian calendar | 322–323 |
| Islamic calendar | 332–333 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3277 |
| Minguo calendar | 968 before ROC 民前968年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1487 |
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Year 944 (CMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Africa
- The city of Algiers is (re)founded by the Zirid king Buluggin ibn Ziri.
- Abu Yazid launches a rebellion against the Fatimids in the Aures Mountains.
[edit] Asia
- The Al-Askari Mosque is built in Samarra (present-day Iraq).
- The Later Jìn Dynasty in China Sovereign Kaiyun ascends to power
- The Byzantines under Pantherios are defeated by Sayf al-Daula in northern Syria.[1]
- Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.
[edit] Europe
- Great storm sweeps England. Many houses destroyed, 1500 in London alone (a significant proportion of the town).[2]
- King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings.
- Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos is deposed as Byzantine emperor by his own sons, Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos.[1]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Flaithbertach mac Inmainén, abbot of Inis Cathaig, Ireland
- Wilgred of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Abu Mansur Al Maturidi, Muslim theologian
- Ngo Quyen, Vietnamese prefect and general
- Wichmann the Elder, Saxon nobleman
- Donnchad Donn, King of Ireland
[edit] References
- ^ a b Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 486, ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
- ^ Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.
