948
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This article is about the year 948. For the number, see 948 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s |
| Years: | 945 946 947 – 948 – 949 950 951 |
| 948 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 948 CMXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1701 |
| Armenian calendar | 397 ԹՎ ՅՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5698 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −896 – −895 |
| Bengali calendar | 355 |
| Berber calendar | 1898 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1492 |
| Burmese calendar | 310 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6456–6457 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3644 or 3584 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3645 or 3585 |
| Coptic calendar | 664–665 |
| Discordian calendar | 2114 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 940–941 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4708–4709 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1004–1005 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 870–871 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4049–4050 |
| Holocene calendar | 10948 |
| Igbo calendar | −52 – −51 |
| Iranian calendar | 326–327 |
| Islamic calendar | 336–337 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenryaku 2 (天暦２年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | 948 CMXLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3281 |
| Minguo calendar | 964 before ROC 民前964年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1491 |
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Year 948 (CMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Africa
- The Nri Kingdom in what is now Southeastern Nigeria is started by Eri.
Asia
- The Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of the most significant Hindu temples in the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka, is built.
- The Byzantines raid into Syria, but are defeated by Sayf al-Daula. Leo Phokas however sacks and razes Adata.[1]
Europe
- Otto I the Great founds the missionary dioceses of Brandenburg, Havelberg, Ribe, Aarhus, and Schleswig.
- St Albans School in St Albans, England is founded.
Births
- Gang Gam-chan, medieval Korean government official and military commander (d. 1031)
- Emperor Jingzong of Liao
Deaths
- December 16 – Romanos I Lekapenos, Byzantine Emperor 920–944 (b. c. 870)
- Gao Conghui
- Gaozu of Later Han
References
- ↑ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 487–489, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
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