950

Year 950 (CML) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
950 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar950
CML
Ab urbe condita1703
Armenian calendar399
ԹՎ ՅՂԹ
Assyrian calendar5700
Balinese saka calendar871–872
Bengali calendar357
Berber calendar1900
Buddhist calendar1494
Burmese calendar312
Byzantine calendar6458–6459
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
3646 or 3586
     to 
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3647 or 3587
Coptic calendar666–667
Discordian calendar2116
Ethiopian calendar942–943
Hebrew calendar4710–4711
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1006–1007
 - Shaka Samvat871–872
 - Kali Yuga4050–4051
Holocene calendar10950
Iranian calendar328–329
Islamic calendar338–339
Japanese calendarTenryaku 4
(天暦4年)
Javanese calendar850–851
Julian calendar950
CML
Korean calendar3283
Minguo calendar962 before ROC
民前962年
Nanakshahi calendar−518
Seleucid era1261/1262 AG
Thai solar calendar1492–1493
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1076 or 695 or −77
     to 
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
1077 or 696 or −76

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Arab–Byzantine War: A Hamdanid army (30,000 men) led by Sayf al-Dawla raids into Byzantine theme Anatolia. He defeats Bardas Phokas, but is then ambushed on his return and heavily defeated by Leo Phokas.[1]

Europe

  • November 22 King Lothair II dies at Turin (possibly poisoned by Berengar of Ivrea). Berengar is crowned king of Italy and imprisons Lothair's now 19-year-old widow, Adelaide for four months at Como.
  • Boleslav I, duke of Bohemia, signs a peace treaty with King Otto I of the East Frankish Kingdom. He becomes his ally, but he probably wasn't forced to resume the payment of tribute.
  • Henry I, duke of Bavaria, attacks Western Hungary, taking captives and plunder. He enlarges his duchy in the wars with the Hungarians.[2]

Wales

  • King Hywel Dda ("the Good") dies after an 8-year reign in which he has established codified laws. His three sons Owain ap Hywel Dda, Rhodri ap Hywel, and Edwin ap Hywel divide Wales amongst themselves.

Oceania

  • The Tu'i Tonga Empire starts to expand in the Pacific Ocean. The Tu'i Tonga kings establish the capital at Mu'a on the island of Tongatapu (approximate date).

Religion

Births

  • June 12 Reizei, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)
  • Bernard I, German nobleman (approximate date)
  • Dedo I, German nobleman (approximate date)
  • Egbert, archbishop of Trier (approximate date)
  • Emma of Blois, duchess of Aquitaine (d. 1003)
  • Erik the Red, Norse Viking explorer (d. 1003)
  • Guy of Anderlecht, Christian saint (d. 1012)
  • Herbert III, Frankish nobleman (d. 995)
  • Ibn Yunus, Fatamid astronomer (d. 1009)
  • Lady Finella, Scottish noblewoman (d. 995)
  • Lambert I, French nobleman (approximate date)
  • Lothair Udo I, German nobleman (d. 994)
  • Masako, Japanese empress consort (d. 1000)
  • Moninho Viegas, French knight (d. 1022)
  • Notker III, German Benedictine monk (d. 1022)
  • Odo I (or Eudes), French nobleman (d. 996)
  • Otto I, duke of Carinthia (approximate date)
  • Reginar IV, French nobleman (approximate date)
  • Sarolt, Grand Princess of Hungary (d. 1008)
  • Soběslav, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1004)
  • William I, French nobleman (approximate date)
  • Wolbodo, bishop of Liège (approximate date)

Deaths

  • January 15 Wang Jingchong, Chinese general
  • October 7 Li, Chinese empress consort
  • October Al-Qahir, Abbasid caliph (b. 899)
  • November 22 Lothair II, king of Italy[3]
  • December 24
    • Shi Hongzhao, Chinese general
    • Wang Zhang, Chinese official
    • Yang Bin, Chinese chancellor
  • Ælfric, bishop of Ramsbury (approximate date)
  • Al-Farabi, Muslim philosopher (or 951)
  • Hywel Dda ("the Good"), king of Wales
  • Li Jinquan, Chinese general (approximate date)
  • Ricfried, Frankish nobleman (b. 845)
  • Sunyer, count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona
  • Zoltán, Grand Prince of Hungary (approximate date)
  • Dharma Mahadevi, Indian Queen Regnant

References

  1. Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 489, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2.
  2. Bóna, István (2000). The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries. Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 27. ISBN 963-8312-67-X.
  3. "Lothar | king of Italy". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
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