949
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This article is about the year 949.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s |
| Years: | 946 947 948 – 949 – 950 951 952 |
| 949 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 949 CMXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1702 |
| Armenian calendar | 398 ԹՎ ՅՂԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5699 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -895–-894 |
| Bengali calendar | 356 |
| Berber calendar | 1899 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1493 |
| Burmese calendar | 311 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6457–6458 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年十一月廿九日 (3585/3645-11-29) — to —
己酉年十二月初九日(3586/3646-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 665–666 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 941–942 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4709–4710 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1005–1006 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 871–872 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4050–4051 |
| Holocene calendar | 10949 |
| Iranian calendar | 327–328 |
| Islamic calendar | 337–338 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3282 |
| Minguo calendar | 963 before ROC 民前963年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1492 |
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Year 949 (CMXLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Sayf al-Daula raids into the Byzantine theme of Lykandos but is defeated. The Byzantines counter-attack and seize Germanikeia, defeating an army from Tarsus, and the raiding as far south as Antioch. Theophilos Kourkouas captures Theodosiopolis for Byzantium.[1]
[edit] Europe
- The Byzantine Empire launches another expedition against the Emirate of Crete. The overconfident Byzantine troops, under Constantine Gongyles, are defeated in a surprise attack by the Arabs and flee.[1]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Science
- February 1 – Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus (b. 1928) asserts that the orbits of all the planets of the Solar system were within the same 90° arc of the solar system on this date. The next time it is thought this will occur is on May 6, 2492.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Emperor Yōzei, emperor of Japan
- Yunmen Wenyan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk
[edit] References
- ^ a b Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 489, ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
