945

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Year 945 (CMXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• The Buyid dynasty takes control of Baghdad (but does not supplant the local caliphate).
• The Min Kingdom is taken over by the Southern Tang Kingdom in China.
• The Hamdanid Sayf al-Dawla is defeated by Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid near Qinnasrin (May) and forced to abandon his Syrian domains and flee to Al-Raqqah. Nevertheless, in October the two men come to an agreement, which recognizes Hamdanid rule over northern Syria, founding the Emirate of Aleppo.

Europe

• Edmund I of England conquers Strathclyde, forms an alliance with Malcolm I of Scotland and cedes Cumberland and Westmorland to him.
• Hywel Dda convenes a conference at Whitland, which reforms the laws of Wales.
• Lothair II of Italy takes control of Italy (until 950).
• The sons of Romanos I Lekapenos are overthrown barely a month after deposing their father, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII reigns alone.
• Abd-ar-Rahman III first occupies the palace of Medina Azahara as the new capital of the Emirate of Córdoba.

By topic

Religion

• Dunstan becomes Abbot of Glastonbury in England.

Births

• probable
  • Abbo of Fleury, French monk
  • Eric the Victorious, first King of Sweden (970–995)

Deaths

• August – Tuzun, Abbasid general and de facto ruler of the Caliphate since 943 (killed)
• Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Arab poet, grammarian, geographer, historian and astronomer (b. 893)
• Igor of Kiev, Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus'
• Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese Heian Period author, poet and courtier (b. 872)
• King Krešimir I of Croatia

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