955

This article is about the year 955.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	920s  930s  940s  – 950s –  960s  970s  980s
Years:	952 953 954 – 955 – 956 957 958

955 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

955 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	955 CMLV
Ab urbe condita	1708
Armenian calendar	404 ԹՎ ՆԴ
Assyrian calendar	5705
Bahá'í calendar	-889–-888
Bengali calendar	362
Berber calendar	1905
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1499
Burmese calendar	317
Byzantine calendar	6463–6464
Chinese calendar	甲寅年十二月初五日 (3591/3651-12-5) — to — 乙卯年十一月十五日 (3592/3652-11-15)
Coptic calendar	671–672
Ethiopian calendar	947–948
Hebrew calendar	4715–4716
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1011–1012
- Shaka Samvat	877–878
- Kali Yuga	4056–4057
Holocene calendar	10955
Iranian calendar	333–334
Islamic calendar	343–344
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3288
Minguo calendar	957 before ROC 民前957年
Thai solar calendar	1498

Year 955 (CMLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Banu Ya'la tribesmen destroy Oran.

Europe

• August 10 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I the Great defeats the Magyars, halting their westward expansion and ending the threat to Germany.
• Eadwig becomes King of England.

By topic

Religion

• December 16 – Pope John XII succeeds Pope Agapetus II as the 130th pope.

Births

• Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot

Deaths

• November 8 – Pope Agapetus II
• November 23 – Edred, King of England