959

Year 959 (CMLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

This article is about the year 959. For the car, see Porsche 959. For the motorcycle, see Ducati 959. For other uses, see 959 (disambiguation).
Millennium: 1st millennium
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959 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
959 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar959
CMLIX
Ab urbe condita1712
Armenian calendar408
ԹՎ ՆԸ
Assyrian calendar5709
Balinese saka calendar880–881
Bengali calendar366
Berber calendar1909
Buddhist calendar1503
Burmese calendar321
Byzantine calendar6467–6468
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
3655 or 3595
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
3656 or 3596
Coptic calendar675–676
Discordian calendar2125
Ethiopian calendar951–952
Hebrew calendar4719–4720
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1015–1016
 - Shaka Samvat880–881
 - Kali Yuga4059–4060
Holocene calendar10959
Iranian calendar337–338
Islamic calendar347–348
Japanese calendarTentoku 3
(天徳３年)
Javanese calendar859–860
Julian calendar959
CMLIX
Korean calendar3292
Minguo calendar953 before ROC
民前953年
Nanakshahi calendar−509
Seleucid era1270/1271 AG
Thai solar calendar1501–1502
Tibetan calendar阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1085 or 704 or −68
    — to —
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
1086 or 705 or −67
King Edgar the Peaceful (c. 943–975)

Events

Byzantine Empire
  • April - May – The Byzantines refuse to pay the yearly tribute. A Hungarian army, led by Apor, invades Macedonia and Thrace. He plunders its territories until reaching Constantinople. On his way back, Apor is defeated during a night attack by Byzantine forces.[1]
  • November 9 – Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos ("born in the purple") dies at Constantinople after a 46-year reign. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son Romanos II as ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
  • Winter – Romanos II appoints Leo Phokas (the Younger) to be commander of the Byzantine field army (Domestic of the Schools) in the West. The Phokas clan becomes one of the leading families in Constantinople.

Europe
  • Bruno I, archbishop and duke (archduke) of Lotharingia resigns. His brother, King Otto I divides the duchy in two parts – Upper Lorraine and Lower Lorraine. He appoints Frederick I and Godfrey I as margraves (vice-duke).
  • Pietro III Candiano, doge of Venice, dies after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Pietro IV Candiano, who breaks off his campaign in Spoleto on behalf of King Berengar II of Italy and returns to Venice.
  • Pietro IV Candiano divorces his wife Joanna for political reasons and banishes her as a nun to the monastery of San Zaccaria.

England
  • October 1 – King Eadwig dies after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by his 16-year-old brother Edgar I (the Peaceful), who effectively completes the unification of England, when Northumbria submits to his rule.

Religion
  • Dunstan, bishop of Worcester and London, is appointed by Edgar I as archbishop of Canterbury and becomes his chief adviser.

Births

Deaths
  • July 27 – Chai Rong, emperor of Later Zhou (b. 921)
  • October 1 – Eadwig (the All Fair), king of England
  • October 3 – Gérard of Brogne, Frankish abbot
  • November 9 – Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (b. 905)
  • Ælfsige (or Aelfsige), archbishop of Canterbury
  • Chen Jue, Chinese official and chief of staff
  • Donnchadh mac Urchadh, king of Maigh Seóla (Ireland)
  • Han Yanhui, Chinese Khitan chancellor (b. 882)
  • Pietro III Candiano, doge of Venice
  • Song Qiqiu, Chinese chief strategist (b. 887)

References
  1. Bóna, Istvá (2000). The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries. Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 33. ISBN 963-8312-67-X.
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