949
Year 949 (CMXLIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Gregorian calendar | 949 CMXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1702 |
| Armenian calendar | 398 ԹՎ ՅՂԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5699 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 870–871 |
| Bengali calendar | 356 |
| Berber calendar | 1899 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1493 |
| Burmese calendar | 311 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6457–6458 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3646 or 3439 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3647 or 3440 |
| Coptic calendar | 665–666 |
| Discordian calendar | 2115 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 941–942 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4709–4710 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1005–1006 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 870–871 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4049–4050 |
| Holocene calendar | 10949 |
| Iranian calendar | 327–328 |
| Islamic calendar | 337–338 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenryaku 3 (天暦３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 849–850 |
| Julian calendar | 949 CMXLIX |
| Korean calendar | 3282 |
| Minguo calendar | 963 before ROC 民前963年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −519 |
| Seleucid era | 1260/1261 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1491–1492 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1075 or 694 or −78 — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 1076 or 695 or −77 |
Events
Byzantine Empire
- Arab-Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into the theme of Lykandos, but are defeated. The Byzantines counter-attack and seize Germanikeia, defeating an army from Tarsus, and raiding as far south as Antioch. General (strategos) Theophilos Kourkouas captures Theodosiopolis (modern-day Erzurum) after a 7-month siege.[1]
Europe
- A Byzantine expeditionary force under Constantine Gongyles attempts to re-conquer the Emirate of Crete from the Saracens. The expedition ends in a disastrous failure; the Byzantine camp is destroyed in a surprise attack. Gongyles himself barely escapes on his flagship.[1]
- Abd al-Rahman III the Caliph of Córdoba declares Jihad, preparing a large army & conquers the city of Lugo in the extreme North of Iberia. This raid shows to be one of the furthest raids Muslims in Spain ever conducted, done as a show of strength of the Muslim State in Al-Andalus.
- King Miroslav (or Miroslaus) is killed by Ban Pribina during a civil war started by his younger brother Michael Krešimir II, who succeeds him as ruler of Croatia.
- Summer – The Hungarians defeat a Bavarian army at Laa (modern Austria).[2]
Births
- Fujiwara no Nagatō, Japanese bureaucrat and poet (d. 1009)
- Gebhard of Constance, German bishop (d. 995)
- Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland (d. 1022)
- Mathilde, German abbess and granddaughter of Otto I (d. 1011)[3]
- Ranna, Kannada poet (India) (approximate date)
- Symeon (the New Theologian), Byzantine monk and poet (d. 1022)
- Uma no Naishi, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 1011)
Deaths
- June 1 – Godfrey, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
- August 17 – Li Shouzhen, Chinese general and governor
- September 14 – Fujiwara no Tadahira, Japanese statesman and regent (b. 880)
- September/October – Abdallah ibn al-Mustakfi, Abbasid caliph (b. 905)[4]
Emperor Yozei
- December – Imad al-Dawla, founder of the Buyid dynasty (Iran)
- December 2 – Odo of Wetterau, German nobleman
- December 10 – Herman I, duke of Swabia
- date unknown
- An, Chinese imperial consort (Five Dynasties)
- Eadric, ealdorman of Wessex (approximate date)
- Jeongjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 923)
- Miroslav (or Miroslaus), king of Croatia[5]
- Xiao Han, general of the Khitan Liao dynasty
- Yunmen Wenyan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk[6]
- Zhao Tingyin, general of Later Shu (b. 883)
References
- Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, p. 489, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
- Bóna, István (2000). The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries. Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 27. ISBN 963-8312-67-X.
- Ethelwerd (1962). The chronicle of Æthelweard. Nelson. p. xiii.
- Bowen, Harold (1928). The Life and Times of ʿAlí Ibn ʿÍsà: The Good Vizier. Cambridge University Press. p. 385.
- Francis Ralph Preveden (1962). A History of the Croatian People from Their Arrival on the Shores of the Adriatic to the Present Day: Prehistory and early period until 1397 A.D. Philosophical Library. p. 67.
- Beata Grant (1994). Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih. University of Hawaii Press. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-8248-1625-4.
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