943
Year 943 (CMXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Gregorian calendar | 943 CMXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1696 |
| Armenian calendar | 392 ԹՎ ՅՂԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5693 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 864–865 |
| Bengali calendar | 350 |
| Berber calendar | 1893 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1487 |
| Burmese calendar | 305 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6451–6452 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3639 or 3579 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3640 or 3580 |
| Coptic calendar | 659–660 |
| Discordian calendar | 2109 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 935–936 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4703–4704 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 999–1000 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 864–865 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4043–4044 |
| Holocene calendar | 10943 |
| Iranian calendar | 321–322 |
| Islamic calendar | 331–332 |
| Japanese calendar | Tengyō 6 (天慶６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 843–844 |
| Julian calendar | 943 CMXLIII |
| Korean calendar | 3276 |
| Minguo calendar | 969 before ROC 民前969年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −525 |
| Seleucid era | 1254/1255 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1485–1486 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1069 or 688 or −84 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1070 or 689 or −83 |
Map showing major Rus' raids (blue dates) in mid-9th to mid-11th century, around the Caspian Sea.
Events
Byzantine Empire
- Spring – Allied with the Rus', a Hungarian army raids Moesia and Thrace. Emperor Romanos I buys peace, and accepts to pay a yearly tribute (protection money) to the Hungarians.[1] His frontiers now 'protected' on the Balkan Peninsula, Romanos sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (80,000 men) led by general John Kourkouas (his commander-in-chief) to invade northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).
Europe
- Caspian expeditions of the Rus': The Rus' under the Varangian prince Igor I of Kiev sail up the Kura River, deep into the Caucasus, and defeat the forces of the Sallarid ruler Marzuban ibn Muhammad. They capture the fortress city of Barda (modern Azerbaijan).
- Battle of Wels: A joint Bavarian–Carantanian army led by Bertold (duke of Bavaria) defeats the Hungarians near Wels (Upper Austria), who are attacked at a crossing of the Enns River at Ennsburg.[2]
England
- King Edmund I ravages Strathclyde and defeats the Scottish king Constantine II, who has reigned as king of Alba since 900. Constantine, ruler of the 'Picts and Scots', abdicates to enter a monastery and yields control of his realm to his cousin Malcolm I.[3]
- The Trinity Bridge at Crowland, Lincolnshire is described, in the 'Charter of Eadred'.[4]
Births
- Dayang Jingxuan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1027)
- Edgar I (the Peaceful), king of England (approximate date)
- Emma of Paris, duchess consort of Normandy (d. 968)
- Ibn Zur'a, Abbasid physician and philosopher (d. 1008)
- Matilda, queen consort of Burgundy (approximate date)
Deaths
- February 23
- David I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
- Herbert II, Frankish nobleman
- February 26 – Muirchertach mac Néill, king of Ailech (Ireland)
- March 16 – Pi Guangye, chancellor of Wuyue (b. 877)
- March 30 – Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (b. 889)
- April 6
- Liu Churang, Chinese general (b. 881)
- Nasr II, Samanid emir (b. 906)
- April 10 – Landulf I, prince of Benevento and Capua (Italy)
- April 15 – Liu Bin, emperor of Southern Han (b. 920)
- April 18 – Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman (b. 906)
- July 4 – Wang Kon, founder of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 877)
- July 26 – Motoyoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)
- November 8 – Liu, empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (b. 877)
- Cao Zhongda, official and chancellor of Wuyue (b. 882)
- Gagik I of Vaspurakan, Armenian king (or 936)
- Liu Honggao, chancellor of Southern Han (b. 923)
- Sinan ibn Thabit, Persian physician (b. 880)
- Urchadh mac Murchadh, king of Maigh Seóla (Ireland)
- Xu Jie, Chinese officer and chancellor (b. 868)
- Zhang Yuxian, Chinese rebel leader (approximate date)
References
- Brian Todd Cary (2012). Road to Manzikert – Byanztine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 81. ISBN 978-184884-215-1.
- Charles R. Bowlus. The Battle of Lechfield and his Aftermath, August 955: The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West. Ashgate (2006), p. 145.
- Woolf, Pictland to Alba, p. 175; Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 444-448; Broun, "Constantine II".
- Quoted in Wheeler, W.H. (1896). A history of the fens of South Lincolnshire (2 ed.). Boston: J.M.Newcomb. p. 313.
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