946
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s |
| Years: | 943 944 945 – 946 – 947 948 949 |
| 946 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 946 CMXLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1699 |
| Armenian calendar | 395 ԹՎ ՅՂԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5696 |
| Bengali calendar | 353 |
| Berber calendar | 1896 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1490 |
| Burmese calendar | 308 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6454–6455 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3642 or 3582 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3643 or 3583 |
| Coptic calendar | 662–663 |
| Discordian calendar | 2112 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 938–939 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4706–4707 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1002–1003 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 868–869 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4047–4048 |
| Holocene calendar | 10946 |
| Iranian calendar | 324–325 |
| Islamic calendar | 334–335 |
| Japanese calendar | Tengyō 9 (天慶９年) |
| Julian calendar | 946 CMXLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3279 |
| Minguo calendar | 966 before ROC 民前966年 |
| Seleucid era | 1257/1258 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1488–1489 |
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Year 946 (CMXLVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Eadred I succeeds his brother as king of England.
Asia
By topic
Religion
- May 10 – Pope Agapitus II succeeds Pope Marinus II as the 129th pope.
Births
Deaths
- May 17 – Al Qa'im, second Fatimid caliph.
- May 26 – King Edmund I of England
- July 24 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, ruler of Egypt, founder of the Ikhshidid dynasty (b. 882)
- August 1 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
- Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli