944
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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944 by topic |
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Leaders |
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Gregorian calendar | 944 CMXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 1697 |
Armenian calendar | 393 ԹՎ ՅՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 5694 |
Balinese saka calendar | 865–866 |
Bengali calendar | 351 |
Berber calendar | 1894 |
Buddhist calendar | 1488 |
Burmese calendar | 306 |
Byzantine calendar | 6452–6453 |
Chinese calendar | 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3641 or 3434 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3642 or 3435 |
Coptic calendar | 660–661 |
Discordian calendar | 2110 |
Ethiopian calendar | 936–937 |
Hebrew calendar | 4704–4705 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1000–1001 |
- Shaka Samvat | 865–866 |
- Kali Yuga | 4044–4045 |
Holocene calendar | 10944 |
Iranian calendar | 322–323 |
Islamic calendar | 332–333 |
Japanese calendar | Tengyō 7 (天慶7年) |
Javanese calendar | 844–845 |
Julian calendar | 944 CMXLIV |
Korean calendar | 3277 |
Minguo calendar | 968 before ROC 民前968年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −524 |
Seleucid era | 1255/1256 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1486–1487 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1070 or 689 or −83 — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1071 or 690 or −82 |
Year 944 (CMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
- The city of Algiers is (re)founded by the Zirid king Buluggin ibn Ziri.
- Abu Yazid launches a rebellion against the Fatimids in the Aures Mountains.
Asia
- The Al-Askari Mosque is built in Samarra (present-day Iraq).
- The Later Jìn Dynasty in China Sovereign Kaiyun ascends to power
- The Byzantines under Pantherios are defeated by Sayf al-Daula in northern Syria.[1]
- Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.
- Sayf al-Dawla captures Aleppo (29 October) and extends his control over northern Syria.
Europe
- A great storm sweeps across England, and many houses are destroyed, 1,500 in London alone (a significant proportion of the town).[2]
- King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings.
- Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos is deposed as Byzantine emperor by his own sons, Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos.[1]
Births
Deaths
- Flaithbertach mac Inmainén, abbot of Inis Cathaig, Ireland
- Wilgred of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Abu Mansur Al Maturidi, Muslim theologian
- Ngo Quyen, Vietnamese prefect and general
- Wichmann the Elder, Saxon nobleman
- Donnchad Donn, King of Ireland
References
- ^ a b Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 486, ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-6
- ^ Stratton, J.M. (1969). Agricultural Records. John Baker. ISBN 0-212-97022-4.