944

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	910s  920s  930s  – 940s –  950s  960s  970s
Years:	941 942 943 – 944 – 945 946 947

944 Media

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  The "Holy Mandylion" with the face of Jesus

944 was a leap year.

Events

• 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

• Otto, Duke of Burgundy
• Minamoto no Yorimitsu
• Fujiwara no Sukemasa
• Fujiwara no Akimitsu

Deaths

• 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