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 (it does not supplant the local caliphate).
• The Min Kingdom is taken over by the Southern Tang Kingdom.
• 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 ar-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.

By topic

Religion

• Saint Dunstan becomes the abbot at Glastonbury.

Births

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

Deaths

• August – Tuzun, Abbasid general and de facto ruler of the Caliphate in 943–945
• Hamdani, Arab poet, grammarian, geographer, historian and astronomer
• Igor of Kiev
• Ki no Tsurayuki, courtier of the Heian Period
• King Krešimir I of Croatia

References