940s
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The 940s was a decade that started on 1 January 940 and ended on 31 December 949.
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
Decades: | 910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s |
Years: | 940 941 942 943 944 945 946 947 948 949 |
Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
940
- Saadia Gaon makes his siddur (Jewish prayer book) in Iraq.
- Narita-san Temple is founded in Chiba, Japan.
- The Liao Dynasty stops the rule that a younger sister replace an older sister who died in marriage.
Births
- Gang Gam-chan, Korean government official and military commander
- Emperor Jingzong of Liao
Deaths
- Emperor Yōzei, Emperor of Japan
- Yunmen Wenyan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk
941
- The Rus'-Byzantine War is fought.
- Oda the Severe becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
942
- The Chavda Kingdom is overthrown in Gujarat, India.
- October 30 – Pope Marinus II succeeds Pope Stephen VIII as the 128th pope.
943
- King Constantin II of Scotland retires and becomes a monk. His cousin Malcolm I of Scotland becomes king.
944
- 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.
945
- The Buyid dynasty takes control of Baghdad.
- The Min Kingdom is taken over by the Southern Tang Kingdom.
- Edmund I of England conquers Strathclyde. He makes an alliance with Malcolm I of Scotland and gives Cumberland and Westmorland to him.
- Lothair II of Italy takes control of Italy.
- Romanos I Lekapenos is overthrown. Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII rules alone.
946
- Eadred I becomes king of England.
- Emperor Murakami becomes Emperor of Japan.
- May 10 – Pope Agapitus II succeeds Pope Marinus II as the 129th pope.
947
- The Later Jin Dynasty falls to the Later Han Dynasty in China.
948
- The Nri Kingdom is started by Eri. The kingdom was in what is now Nigeria.
- The Nallur Kandaswamy temple is built.
949
- The Byzantine Empire starts another expedition against the Emirate of Crete.