948

This article is about the year 948.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	910s  920s  930s  – 940s –  950s  960s  970s
Years:	945 946 947 – 948 – 949 950 951

948 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

948 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	948 CMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1701
Armenian calendar	397 ԹՎ ՅՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	5698
Bahá'í calendar	-896–-895
Bengali calendar	355
Berber calendar	1898
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1492
Burmese calendar	310
Byzantine calendar	6456–6457
Chinese calendar	丁未年十一月十八日 (3584/3644-11-18) — to — 戊申年十一月廿八日 (3585/3645-11-28)
Coptic calendar	664–665
Ethiopian calendar	940–941
Hebrew calendar	4708–4709
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1004–1005
- Shaka Samvat	870–871
- Kali Yuga	4049–4050
Holocene calendar	10948
Iranian calendar	326–327
Islamic calendar	336–337
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3281
Minguo calendar	964 before ROC 民前964年
Thai solar calendar	1491

Year 948 (CMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Nri Kingdom in what is now Southeastern Nigeria is started by Eri.

Asia

• The Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of the most significant Hindu temples in the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka, is built.
• The Byzantines raid into Syria, but are defeated by Sayf al-Daula. Leo Phokas however sacks and razes Adata.

Europe

• Otto I the Great founds the missionary dioceses of Brandenburg, Havelberg, Ribe, Aarhus, and Schleswig.
• St Albans School in St Albans, England is founded.

Births

• Gang Gam-chan, medieval Korean government official and military commander (d. 1031)
• Emperor Jingzong of Liao

Deaths

• December 16 – Romanos I Lekapenos, Byzantine Emperor 920–944 (b. c. 870)
• Gao Conghui
• Gaozu of Later Han