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Calendar overview 945
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 After the death of her husband Igor,  Olga becomes Princess of Kiev for her son Svyatoslav .  | 
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| 945 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 393/394 (turn of the year July) | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 937/938 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1488/89 (southern Buddhism); 1487/88 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) | 
| Chinese calendar | 60th (61st) cycle
 Year of the wood snake乙巳 ( at the beginning of the year wood dragon 甲辰)  | 
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 307/308 (turn of the year April) | 
| Iranian calendar | 323/324 | 
| Islamic calendar | 333/334 (turn of the year 12/13 August) | 
| Jewish calendar | 4705/06 (September 10/11) | 
| Coptic calendar | 661/662 | 
| Malayalam calendar | 120/121 | 
| Roman calendar | 
ab urbe condita  MDCXCVIII (1698)
 Diocletian's era : 661/662 (New Year November)  | 
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1255/56 (turn of the year April)
 Syria: 1256/57 (New Year October)  | 
| Spanish era | 983 | 
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1001/02 (turn of the year April) | 
Events
Politics and world events
East asia
- October 23 : After only two years, Hyejong , 2nd King of the Goryeo Empire in Korea , dies of natural causes . His younger brother Jeongjong takes the throne.
 
Central Asia
The Persian Bujids occupied Baghdad and took over the patronage of the caliphs for over a hundred years . The Abbasids are politically disempowered and only the spiritual leader of the Sunni Muslims . In the north, Saif ad-Daula from the House of the Hamdanids succeeds in establishing his independence as the emir of Aleppo .
Eastern and Central Europe
- The rebel tribe of the Drewlyans kills Igor , the prince of the Volga-Rus . His wife Olga becomes princess of Kiev as regent for her son Svyatoslav . She immediately begins a campaign against the Drewljanen to get revenge on them.
 - Miroslav his father after the death Krešimir I. King of Croatia .
 
Western Europe
- July: During his campaign against the Normans in Normandy , who support the underage Duke Richard I , Ludwig IV , King of Western France , is captured by his opponents. These deliver him to his domestic political opponent Hugo the Great , who demands the surrender of Ludwig's royal seat of Laon as the price for the king's release , where Richard I is presumably held prisoner.
 
Africa
- Abū Yazīd Machlad ibn Kaidād continues his revolt against the Fatimids in Ifrīqiya , but slowly loses popular support when he gives up his ascetic way of life. He has to give up the siege of Mahdia , the capital of Caliph al-Qa'im , in September after some Arab and Berber tribes have fallen away from him.
 
First documentary mentions
- The municipality of Upgant-Schott is first mentioned in a document in the treasury register of the Fulda monastery .
 - Pewsum (municipality of Krummhörn) has its first documentary mention as the chief seat of the Manninga family .
 - The place Bosenbach is first mentioned in a document.
 
Historical maps and views
Born
Exact date of birth unknown
- al-Muqaddasi , Arab geographer († around 1000 )
 
Born around 945
- Mieszko I. , Prince of the Polans († 992 )
 - Tróndur í Gøtu , Viking chief in the Faroe Islands († 1035 )
 
Died
Date of death secured
- July 13 : Herluin , Count of Montreuil
 - July 23 : Richer , Bishop of Liège (* 880 )
 - October 23 : Hyejong , 2nd King of the Goryeo Empire in Korea (* 912 )
 
Exact date of death unknown
- Bagrat I , King of Georgia
 - Igor , regent of Kiev
 - Ki no Tsurayuki , Japanese poet and courtier (* 872 )
 - Krešimir I , King of Croatia
 
Died around 945
- William II , Count of Angoulême
 
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