940
Appearance
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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940 by topic |
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Leaders |
Categories |
Gregorian calendar | 940 CMXL |
Ab urbe condita | 1693 |
Armenian calendar | 389 ԹՎ ՅՁԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 5690 |
Balinese saka calendar | 861–862 |
Bengali calendar | 347 |
Berber calendar | 1890 |
Buddhist calendar | 1484 |
Burmese calendar | 302 |
Byzantine calendar | 6448–6449 |
Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3637 or 3430 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3638 or 3431 |
Coptic calendar | 656–657 |
Discordian calendar | 2106 |
Ethiopian calendar | 932–933 |
Hebrew calendar | 4700–4701 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 996–997 |
- Shaka Samvat | 861–862 |
- Kali Yuga | 4040–4041 |
Holocene calendar | 10940 |
Iranian calendar | 318–319 |
Islamic calendar | 328–329 |
Japanese calendar | Tengyō 3 (天慶3年) |
Javanese calendar | 840–841 |
Julian calendar | 940 CMXL |
Korean calendar | 3273 |
Minguo calendar | 972 before ROC 民前972年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −528 |
Seleucid era | 1251/1252 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1482–1483 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1066 or 685 or −87 — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1067 or 686 or −86 |
Year 940 (CMXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- Saadia Gaon compiles his siddur (Jewish prayer book) in Iraq.
- Narita-san Temple is founded in Chiba, Japan.
- The Liao Dynasty abolishes the requirement that a younger sister replace an older sister who died in marriage.
Europe
- Oldest known Danish king, Gorm the Old
- Beginning of construction of the main forts in Greater Poland: Giecz, Bnin, Ląd, Gniezno, Poznań, Grzybowo. All the forts were constructed rapidly between 939 and 942.
Births
- Abu'l-Wafa, Iranian mathematician
- Brian Boru, high king of Ireland 172-987
- Géza, fejedelem of the Magyars (approximate date)
- Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, queen of Aquitaine, regent of Gévaudan and Provence (d. 1026) (approximate date)
- Subh of Cordoba, mother and regent of the Caliph of Cordoba (d. 999) (approximate date)
Deaths
- July 20 – Ibn Muqla, Abbasid vizier and calligrapher (b. 885)
- December 25 – Makan ibn Kaki, Dailamite warlord
- ar-Radi (Caliph of Baghdad)
- Taira no Masakado, leader of the Taira Clan