950
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This article is about the year 950.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 920s 930s 940s – 950s – 960s 970s 980s |
| Years: | 947 948 949 – 950 – 951 952 953 |
| 950 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 950 CML |
| Ab urbe condita | 1703 |
| Armenian calendar | 399 ԹՎ ՅՂԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5700 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -894–-893 |
| Bengali calendar | 357 |
| Berber calendar | 1900 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1494 |
| Burmese calendar | 312 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6458–6459 |
| Chinese calendar | 己酉年十二月初十日 (3586/3646-12-10) — to —
庚戌年十一月二十日(3587/3647-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 666–667 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 942–943 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4710–4711 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1006–1007 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 872–873 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4051–4052 |
| Holocene calendar | 10950 |
| Iranian calendar | 328–329 |
| Islamic calendar | 338–339 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3283 |
| Minguo calendar | 962 before ROC 民前962年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1493 |
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Year 950 (CML) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] World
- World population is estimated to be 250 million.
[edit] Europe
- Duke Boleslav I of Bohemia makes peace with Otto I.
- Page with Joshua Leading the Israelites, from the Joshua Roll, is made in Constantinople. It is now kept at Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome (approximate date).
[edit] Asia
- The Tu'i Tonga Empire begins to form in the Pacific Ocean.
- The Later Han Dynasty in China falls.
- Sayf al-Daula leads 30,000 men in a raid into Byzantine Anatolia. He defeats Bardas Phokas, but is then ambushed on his return and heavily defeated by Leo Phokas.[1]
[edit] Births
- June 12 – Emperor Reizei of Japan (d. 1011)
- Erik the Red (d. 1003)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 489, ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-2, http://books.google.com/?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC
