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Calendar overview 940
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| 940 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 388/389 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 932/933 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1483/84 (southern Buddhism); 1482/83 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 60th (61st) cycle
Year of the Metal Rat庚子 ( at the beginning of the Earth Pig year 己亥) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 302/303 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 318/319 |
| Islamic calendar | 328/329 (New Year 5th / 6th October) |
| Jewish calendar | 4700/01 (September 4th / 5th) |
| Coptic calendar | 656/657 |
| Malayalam calendar | 115/116 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCXCIII (1693)
Diocletian's era : 656/657 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1250/51 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1251/52 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 978 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 996/997 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Eastern and Western France
- King Ludwig IV of West Franconia marries Gerberga of Lorraine , sister of King Otto I and widow of Duke Giselbert I , and lays claim to Lorraine .
- The East Franconian King Otto I expelled the West Franconian King Ludwig IV from Lorraine and enfeoffed his own brother Heinrich with the duchy. However, this cannot prevail there and is discontinued. Otto I then entrusts Otto von Verdun with the power of rule as prefect ( praeficiensque regioni Lothariorum ) for Giselbert's underage son.
- Kempten , a monastery in the Allgäu, is repeatedly pillaged by the Hungarians .
- The city of Fréjus is largely destroyed in an attack by Saracens .
- Duke Hugo the Great of France pays homage to King Otto I in the royal palace of Attigny .
British Isles / Viking Age
- Viking Age : Odo of Canterbury brokered a peace treaty between the English King Edmund I of the Anglo-Saxon house of Wessex and Olaf Guthfrithsson , Viking King of Dublin and Jorvik . Edmund had previously besieged Olaf in Leicester for a long time .
First documentary mentions
- June 4th : Oberhausen an der Appel is mentioned for the first time in a document from Otto the Great .
- First documented mention of Mörsch
religion
- Count Heribert II of Vermandois drives Archbishop Artold out of Reims and reinstates his son Hugo there .
Born
Date of birth saved
- June 10 : Abu l-Wafa al Busdjani , Persian mathematician and astronomer († 998 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Abū l-Qasem-e Ferdousī , Persian poet and epic poet († 1020 )
- Henry III. , Duke of Bavaria († 989 )
Born around 940
- Heriger von Lobbes , Flemish clergyman and composer, abbot of Lobbes Abbey in Hainaut († 1007 )
- Willigis , Archbishop of Mainz († 1011 )
Died
Date of death secured
- May 11 : Eutychius of Alexandria , Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria (* 876 / 77 )
- July 20 : ibn muqla , Arabic Calligraphy (* 885 / 886 )
- August 3rd : Benno von Einsiedeln , Bishop of Metz
- December 13 : Ar-Rādī bi-'llāh , twentieth Abbasid caliph (* 907 )
Died around 940
Web links
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