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Calendar overview 943
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| 943 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 391/392 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 935/936 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1486/87 (southern Buddhism); 1485/86 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 60th (61st) cycle
Year of the water hare癸卯 ( at the beginning of the year water tiger 壬寅) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 305/306 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 321/322 |
| Islamic calendar | 331/332 (turn of the year 3rd / 4th September) |
| Jewish calendar | 4703/04 (September 3-4) |
| Coptic calendar | 659/660 |
| Malayalam calendar | 118/119 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDCXCVI (1696)
Diocletian's era : 659/660 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1253/54 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1254/55 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 981 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 999/1000 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Europe
- August 12th : A Bavarian army under Duke Berthold defeats invading Magyars on the Wels Heath . The Hungarian invasions then subsided for several years.
- 942 or 943: Malcolm I becomes King of Scotland after his uncle Constantine II abdicated from the House of Alpin to live as a monk.
Caucasus
- The Kievan Rus conquered the city of Bərdə in what is now Azerbaijan.
Africa
- The Ibadites under Abū Yazīd Machlad ibn Kaidād start a revolt in Ifrīqiya against the ruling dynasty of the Fatimids and Caliph al-Qa'im bi-amri 'llah .
East asia
- July 4th : After his death, King Wang Geon is given the honorary name Taejo . His eldest son Hyejong succeeds him to the throne of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo .
Science and culture
- The Arab philosopher and historian al-Masʿūdī completes his book of gold meadows and gem pits (مروج الذهب ومعادن الجوهر Murūdsch adh-dhahab wa-maʿādin al-dschauhar ).
religion
- Wulfsige II becomes Bishop of Sherborne after Alfred's death .
Died
- February 23 : Heribert II. , Count of Vermandois, Soissons and Meaux (* around 880 )
- July 4th : Taejo , as King Wang Geon founder of the Korean Goryeo empire and the Goryeo dynasty (* 877 )
- Alfred , Bishop of Sherborne
- Rudolf II , Count of Vexin, Amiens and Valois
- Sinan ibn Thabit , doctor, astronomer and mathematician (* around 880 )
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