944
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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 |
| 944 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 944 CMXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1697 |
| Armenian calendar | 393 ԹՎ ՅՂԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5694 |
| 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 | 866–867 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4045–4046 |
| Holocene calendar | 10944 |
| Iranian calendar | 322–323 |
| Islamic calendar | 332–333 |
| Japanese calendar | Tengyō 7 (天慶７年) |
| Julian calendar | 944 CMXLIV |
| Korean calendar | 3277 |
| Minguo calendar | 968 before ROC 民前968年 |
| Seleucid era | 1255/1256 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1486–1487 |
Year 944 (CMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
- The city of Algiers is (re)founded by the Zirid king Buluggin ibn Ziri.
- Abu Yazid launches a rebellion against the Fatimids in the Aures Mountains.
Asia
- The Al-Askari Mosque is built in Samarra (present-day Iraq).
- The Later Jìn Dynasty in China Sovereign Kaiyun ascends to power
- The Byzantines under Pantherios are defeated by Sayf al-Daula in northern Syria.[1]
- Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.
- Sayf al-Dawla captures Aleppo (29 October) and extends his control over northern Syria.
Europe
- Great storm sweeps England. Many houses destroyed, 1500 in London alone (a significant proportion of the town).[2]
- King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings.
- Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos is deposed as Byzantine emperor by his own sons, Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos.[1]
Births
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
