943

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	920s 930s 940s 950s 960s
Years:	940 941 942 943 944 945 946

943 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	943 CMXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1696
Armenian calendar	392 ԹՎ ՅՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	5693
Balinese saka calendar	864–865
Bengali calendar	350
Berber calendar	1893
Buddhist calendar	1487
Burmese calendar	305
Byzantine calendar	6451–6452
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water  Tiger) 3639 or 3579     — to — 癸卯年 (Water  Rabbit) 3640 or 3580
Coptic calendar	659–660
Discordian calendar	2109
Ethiopian calendar	935–936
Hebrew calendar	4703–4704
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	999–1000
- Shaka Samvat	864–865
- Kali Yuga	4043–4044
Holocene calendar	10943
Iranian calendar	321–322
Islamic calendar	331–332
Japanese calendar	Tengyō 6 (天慶６年)
Javanese calendar	843–844
Julian calendar	943 CMXLIII
Korean calendar	3276
Minguo calendar	969 before ROC 民前969年
Nanakshahi calendar	−525
Seleucid era	1254/1255 AG
Thai solar calendar	1485–1486
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1069 or 688 or −84     — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1070 or 689 or −83

Map showing major Rus' raids (blue dates) in mid-9th to mid-11th century, around the Caspian Sea.

Year 943 ( CMXLIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring – Allied with the Rus', a Hungarian army raids Moesia and Thrace. Emperor Romanos I buys peace, and accepts to pay a yearly tribute (protection money) to the Hungarians. ^[1] His frontiers now 'protected' on the Balkan Peninsula, Romanos sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (80,000 men) led by general John Kourkouas (his commander-in-chief) to invade northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).

Europe

• Caspian expeditions of the Rus': The Rus' under the Varangian prince Igor I of Kiev sail up the Kura River, deep into the Caucasus, and defeat the forces of the Sallarid ruler Marzuban ibn Muhammad. They capture the fortress city of Barda (modern Azerbaijan).
• Battle of Wels: A joint Bavarian–Carantanian army led by Bertold (duke of Bavaria) defeats the Hungarians near Wels (Upper Austria), who are attacked at a crossing of the Enns River at Ennsburg. ^[2]

England

• King Edmund I ravages Strathclyde and defeats the Scottish king Constantine II, who has reigned as king of Alba since 900. Constantine, ruler of the 'Picts and Scots', abdicates to enter a monastery and yields control of his realm to his cousin Malcolm I. ^[3]
• The Trinity Bridge at Crowland, Lincolnshire is described, in the 'Charter of Eadred'. ^[4]

Births

• Dayang Jingxuan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1027)
• Edgar I (the Peaceful), king of England (approximate date)
• Emma of Paris, duchess consort of Normandy (d. 968)
• Ibn Zur'a, Abbasid physician and philosopher (d. 1008)
• Matilda, queen consort of Burgundy (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 23
  • David I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
  • Herbert II, Frankish nobleman
• February 26 – Muirchertach mac Néill, king of Ailech (Ireland)
• March 16 – Pi Guangye, chancellor of Wuyue (b. 877)
• March 30 – Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (b. 889)
• April 6
  • Liu Churang, Chinese general (b. 881)
  • Nasr II, Samanid emir (b. 906)
• April 10 – Landulf I, prince of Benevento and Capua (Italy)
• April 15 – Liu Bin, emperor of Southern Han (b. 920)
• April 18 – Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman (b. 906)
• July 4 – Wang Kon, founder of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 877)
• July 26 – Motoyoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)
• November 8 – Liu, empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (b. 877)
• Cao Zhongda, official and chancellor of Wuyue (b. 882)
• Gagik I of Vaspurakan, Armenian king (or 936)
• Liu Honggao, chancellor of Southern Han (b. 923)
• Sinan ibn Thabit, Persian physician (b. 880)
• Urchadh mac Murchadh, king of Maigh Seóla (Ireland)
• Xu Jie, Chinese officer and chancellor (b. 868)
• Zhang Yuxian, Chinese rebel leader (approximate date)

References

1. Brian Todd Cary (2012). Road to Manzikert – Byanztine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 81. ISBN   978-184884-215-1.
2. Charles R. Bowlus. The Battle of Lechfield and his Aftermath, August 955: The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West. Ashgate (2006), p. 145.
3. Woolf, Pictland to Alba, p. 175; Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 444-448; Broun, "Constantine II".
4. Quoted in Wheeler, W.H. (1896). A history of the fens of South Lincolnshire (2 ed.). Boston: J.M.Newcomb. p. 313.