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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
Decades: | 910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s |
Years: | 941 942 943 – 944 – 945 946 947 |
Gregorian calendar | 944 CMXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 1697 |
Armenian calendar | 393 ԹՎ ՅՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 5694 |
Balinese saka calendar | 865–866 |
Bengali calendar | 351 |
Berber calendar | 1894 |
Buddhist calendar | 1488 |
Burmese calendar | 306 |
Byzantine calendar | 6452–6453 |
Chinese calendar | 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3640 or 3580 — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3641 or 3581 |
Coptic calendar | 660–661 |
Discordian calendar | 2110 |
Ethiopian calendar | 936–937 |
Hebrew calendar | 4704–4705 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1000–1001 |
- Shaka Samvat | 865–866 |
- Kali Yuga | 4044–4045 |
Holocene calendar | 10944 |
Iranian calendar | 322–323 |
Islamic calendar | 332–333 |
Japanese calendar | Tengyō 7 (天慶7年) |
Javanese calendar | 844–845 |
Julian calendar | 944 CMXLIV |
Korean calendar | 3277 |
Minguo calendar | 968 before ROC 民前968年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −524 |
Seleucid era | 1255/1256 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1486–1487 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1070 or 689 or −83 — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) 1071 or 690 or −82 |
944 (CMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 1st millennium, the 44th year of the 10th century, and the 5th year of the 940s decade. As of the start of 944, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
[change | change source]- The city of Algiers is (re)founded by the Zirid king Buluggin ibn Ziri.
- Abu Yazid starts a rebellion against the Fatimids in the Aures Mountains.
- The Al-Askari Mosque is built in Samarra.
- King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings.
- Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos is deposed as Byzantine emperor. It was by his own sons, Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos.
Births
[change | change source]Deaths
[change | change source]- 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