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Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 9th century10th century11th century
Decades: 910s 920s 930s940s950s 960s 970s
Years: 940 941 942 943 944 945 946 947 948 949
Categories: BirthsDeaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments

Below are some of the important events that happened from 940 to 949.


940

Births

Deaths

  • July 20 – Ibn Muqla, Abbasid vizier and calligrapher
  • December 25 – Makan ibn Kaki, Dailamite warlord
  • Taira no Masakado, leader of the Taira Clan

941

Births

Deaths

  • April 21 – Bajkam, commander of commanders of the Abbasid Caliphate

942

Births

Deaths

  • King Idwal Foel of Gwynedd
  • December 17 – William I of Normandy
  • Gaozu of Later Jin, founder of the Later Jin Dynasty in China
  • Liu Yan of the Southern Han Kingdom

943

Births

Deaths

944

Births

  • Otto, Duke of Burgundy
  • Minamoto no Yorimitsu
  • Fujiwara no Sukemasa
  • Fujiwara no Akimitsu

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

945

Births

Deaths

  • Igor of Kiev
  • King Krešimir I of Croatia

946

Deaths

947

  • The Later Jin Dynasty falls to the Later Han Dynasty in China.

Births

Deaths

948

  • The Nri Kingdom is started by Eri. The kingdom was in what is now Nigeria.
  • The Nallur Kandaswamy temple is built.

Births

  • Gang Gam-chan, Korean government official and military commander
  • Emperor Jingzong of Liao

Deaths

  • December 16 – Romanos I Lekapenos, Byzantine Emperor
  • Gao Conghui
  • Gaozu of Later Han

949

Deaths

See also

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