940

Year 940 (CMXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
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940 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
940 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar940
CMXL
Ab urbe condita1693
Armenian calendar389
ԹՎ ՅՁԹ
Assyrian calendar5690
Balinese saka calendar861–862
Bengali calendar347
Berber calendar1890
Buddhist calendar1484
Burmese calendar302
Byzantine calendar6448–6449
Chinese calendar己亥年 (Earth Pig)
3636 or 3576
    — to —
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3637 or 3577
Coptic calendar656–657
Discordian calendar2106
Ethiopian calendar932–933
Hebrew calendar4700–4701
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat996–997
 - Shaka Samvat861–862
 - Kali Yuga4040–4041
Holocene calendar10940
Iranian calendar318–319
Islamic calendar328–329
Japanese calendarTengyō 3
(天慶３年)
Javanese calendar840–841
Julian calendar940
CMXL
Korean calendar3273
Minguo calendar972 before ROC
民前972年
Nanakshahi calendar−528
Seleucid era1251/1252 AG
Thai solar calendar1482–1483
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
West Slavs during the 9th–10th centuries.
Siemomysł, duke of the Piast Dynasty.

Events

Europe
  • The tribe of the Polans begins the construction of the following fortified settlements (Giecz, Bnin, Ląd, Gniezno, Poznań, Grzybowo and Ostrów Lednicki) in Greater Poland. The Piast Dynasty under Duke Siemomysł gains control over other groups of Polans along the Upper Vistula, and establishes their rule around Giecz (approximate date).

Japan
  • March 25 – Taira no Masakado, the self-proclaimed "New Emperor" (新皇), is subdued by local rivals who revolt against his rule. His forces are defeated by his cousin, Taira no Sadamori, in Shimōsa Province. Masakado's head is brought back to Emperor Suzaku in Tokyo.[1]

Literature

Religion

Births
  • June 10 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (d. 998)
  • Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu, Syrian physician and scientist (d. 1058)
  • Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1000)
  • Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Persian mathematician and physicist (approximate date)
  • Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, French queen and regent (d. 1026)
  • Al-Baqillani, Muslim theologian and jurist (approximate date)
  • Baldwin III ("the Young"), Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
  • Chavundaraya, Indian general, architect and poet (d. 989)
  • Damian Dalassenos, Byzantine governor (approximate date)
  • Eadwig ("the All-Fair"), king of England (approximate date)
  • Ferdowsi, Persian poet and author (approximate date)
  • George El Mozahem, Egyptian martyr and saint (d. 969)
  • Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (approximate date)
  • Guy (or Guido), margrave of Ivrea (Piedmont) (d. 965)
  • Henry III ("the Younger"), duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
  • Leopold I, margrave of Austria (approximate date)
  • Lothair I, margrave of the Nordmark (approximate date)
  • Notker of Liège, French bishop and prince-bishop (d. 1008)
  • Subh of Córdoba, mother and regent of Hisham II (approximate date)
  • Thorgeir Ljosvetningagodi, Icelandic lawspeaker (approximate date)
  • Vijayanandi, Indian mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)
  • Willigis, German archchancellor and archbishop (approximate date)
  • Wulfhilda of Barking, English nun and abbess (approximate date)

Deaths

References
  1. Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. Cassell & Co. p. 199. ISBN 1854095234.
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