940
This article is about the year 940. For the number, see 940 (number).
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
Decades: | 910s 920s 930s – 940s – 950s 960s 970s |
Years: | 937 938 939 – 940 – 941 942 943 |
940 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 940 CMXL |
Ab urbe condita | 1693 |
Armenian calendar | 389 ԹՎ ՅՁԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 5690 |
Bengali calendar | 347 |
Berber calendar | 1890 |
Buddhist calendar | 1484 |
Burmese calendar | 302 |
Byzantine calendar | 6448–6449 |
Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3636 or 3576 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3637 or 3577 |
Coptic calendar | 656–657 |
Discordian calendar | 2106 |
Ethiopian calendar | 932–933 |
Hebrew calendar | 4700–4701 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 996–997 |
- Shaka Samvat | 862–863 |
- Kali Yuga | 4041–4042 |
Holocene calendar | 10940 |
Iranian calendar | 318–319 |
Islamic calendar | 328–329 |
Japanese calendar | Tengyō 3 (天慶3年) |
Julian calendar | 940 CMXL |
Korean calendar | 3273 |
Minguo calendar | 972 before ROC 民前972年 |
Seleucid era | 1251/1252 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1482–1483 |
Year 940 (CMXL) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- Saadia Gaon compiles his siddur (Jewish prayer book) in Iraq.
- Narita-san Temple is founded in Chiba, Japan.
- The Liao Dynasty abolishes the requirement that a younger sister replace an older sister who died in marriage.
Europe
- Oldest known Danish King, Gorm the Old
- Beginning of construction of the main forts in Greater Poland: Giecz, Bnin, Ląd, Gniezno, Poznań, Grzybowo. All the forts were constructed rapidly between 939 and 942.
Births
- Abu'l-Wafa, Iranian mathematician
- Brian Boru, high king of Ireland 172-987
- Géza, fejedelem of the Magyars (approximate date)
Deaths
- July 20 – Ibn Muqla, Abbasid vizier and calligrapher (b. 885)
- December 25 – Makan ibn Kaki, Dailamite warlord
- ar-Radi (Caliph of Baghdad)
- Taira no Masakado, leader of the Taira Clan
References
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