940s BC
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Millennia: | 1st millennium BC |
Centuries: | 11th century BC - 10th century BC - 9th century BC |
Decades: | 970s BC 960s BC 950s BC - 940s BC - 930s BC 920s BC 910s BC |
Years: | 949 BC 948 BC 947 BC 946 BC 945 BC 944 BC 943 BC 942 BC 941 BC 940 BC |
Categories: | Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments |
[edit] Events and trends
- 947 BC — Death of Zhou mo wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 946 BC — Zhou gong wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 945 BC — Egypt: Psusennes III dies, the last king of the Twenty-first Dynasty. Shoshenq I succeeds him, the founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty.