945

Year 945 (CMXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• January 27 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown barely a month after deposing their father, Romanos I. With the help of his wife, Constantine VII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He appoints to the highest army commands four members of the Phokas family, which have been in disgrace under Romanos.
• Constantine VII concludes a
  Kiev grows rich from Byzantine commerce.^[1]

• Spring – Berengar of Ivrea invades Italy with hired Lombard troops and takes up residence in Milan. Berengar proceeds to Verona, where he is joined by forces of Count Milo and other partisans.
• King Hugh of Provence lays siege to Vignola to put an end to Berengar's advance. But to no avail, as Berengar of Ivrea is hailed throughout northern Italy as a liberator, and Hugh flees to Provence.
• April 13 – Hugh of Provence abdicates the throne in favor of his son Lothair II (who has been co-ruler since 931) and is acclaimed as sole king of Lombardia. Hugh is allowed to retire in Pavia.
• Sviatoslav I. His mother Olga becomes regent
  and the official ruler.
• Summer – King Louis IV ("d'Outremer") is captured by the Normans and handed over to Hugh the Great. In return for the release of Louis, Laon surrenders to him in compensation.^[2]
• Caliph
  Medina Azahara (called "the shining city") as the new capital of the Caliphate of Córdoba (modern Spain
  ).

• King Edmund I conquers Strathclyde, forms an alliance with Malcolm I (king of the 'Picts and Scots') and cedes Cumberland and Westmorland to him.
• King Hywel Dda ("the Good") convenes a conference at Whitland, which draws up a standardized code of laws in Wales (approximate date).

Arabian Empire

• Summer – Sayf al-Dawla is defeated by Muslim forces under Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid near Qinnasrin. He is forced to abandon his Syrian domains and flees to Raqqa. In October the two men come to an agreement, which recognizes Hamdanid rule over northern Syria, founding the Emirate of Aleppo.
• Winter – Muslim forces under Nasir al-Dawla capture Baghdad and restore Caliph Al-Muttaqi to power again. Al-Dawla establishes himself as amir al-umara, or de facto regent of the Abbasid Caliphate.

China

• Autumn – The
  Wu Kingdom
  . He annexes Min territory into its own boundaries.

By topic

Religion

• Benedictine monasticism in the monastery
  .

• Abbo of Fleury, French monk and abbot (approximate date)
• Adelaide of Aquitaine, French queen consort (or 952)
• Al-Muqaddasi, Arab Muslim geographer
  (approximate date)
• mathematician (d. 1020
  )
• Eric the Victorious, king of Sweden (approximate date)
• Judah ben David Hayyuj, Jewish linguist (approximate date)
• Tróndur í Gøtu, Viking chieftain (approximate date)

Deaths

• January 21 – Yang Tan, Chinese general and governor
• February 14
  • Lian Chongyu, Chinese general
  • Ten Kingdoms
    )
• June 30 – Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese writer and poet (b. 872)
• July 4 – Zhuo Yanming, Chinese Buddhist monk and emperor
• October 23 – Hyejong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 912)
• Abu Muhammad al-Hasan, Arab Muslim geographer (b. 893)
• Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia
  )
• Bagrat I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
• Fujiwara no Nakahira, Japanese statesman (b. 875)
• Igor I, Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus'
• Krešimir I, king of Croatian Kingdom
• Song Fujin, empress and wife of Li Bian
• Tuzun, Abbasid general and de facto ruler
• Wang Jichang, Chinese general and chancellor
• Yang Sigong, Chinese official and chancellor
• Zhang Gongduo, Chinese general and official

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