943

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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	920s 930s 940s 950s 960s
Years:	940 941 942 943 944 945 946

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943 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	943 CMXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1696
Armenian calendar	392 ԹՎ ՅՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	5693
Balinese saka calendar	864–865
Bengali calendar	349–350
Berber calendar	1893
Buddhist calendar	1487
Burmese calendar	305
Byzantine calendar	6451–6452
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3640 or 3433 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3641 or 3434
Coptic calendar	659–660
Discordian calendar	2109
Ethiopian calendar	935–936
Hebrew calendar	4703–4704
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	999–1000
- Shaka Samvat	864–865
- Kali Yuga	4043–4044
Holocene calendar	10943
Iranian calendar	321–322
Islamic calendar	331–332
Japanese calendar	Tengyō 6 (天慶６年)
Javanese calendar	843–844
Julian calendar	943 CMXLIII
Korean calendar	3276
Minguo calendar	969 before ROC 民前969年
Nanakshahi calendar	−525
Seleucid era	1254/1255 AG
Thai solar calendar	1485–1486
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1069 or 688 or −84 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1070 or 689 or −83

Events

Spring – Allied with the Rus', a Hungarian army raids Moesia and Thrace. Emperor Romanos I buys peace, and accepts to pay a yearly tribute (protection money) to the Hungarians.^[1] His frontiers now 'protected' on the Balkan Peninsula, Romanos sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (80,000 men) led by general John Kourkouas (his commander-in-chief) to invade northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).

Caspian expeditions of the Rus': The Rus' under the Varangian prince Igor I of Kiev sail up the Kura River, deep into the Caucasus, and defeat the forces of the Sallarid ruler Marzuban ibn Muhammad. They capture the fortress city of Barda (modern Azerbaijan).
Battle of Wels: A joint Bavarian–Carantanian army led by Bertold (duke of Bavaria) defeats the Hungarians near Wels (Upper Austria), who are attacked at a crossing of the Enns River at Ennsburg.^[2]

King Edmund I ravages Strathclyde and defeats the Scottish king Constantine II, who has reigned as king of Alba since 900. Constantine, ruler of the 'Picts and Scots', abdicates to enter a monastery and yields control of his realm to his cousin Malcolm I.^[3]
The Trinity Bridge at Crowland, Lincolnshire is described, in the 'Charter of Eadred'.^[4]

References

[1]
Brian Todd Cary (2012). Road to Manzikert – Byanztine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 81. ISBN 978-184884-215-1.
[2]
Charles R. Bowlus. The Battle of Lechfield and his Aftermath, August 955: The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West. Ashgate (2006), p. 145.
[3]
Woolf, Pictland to Alba, p. 175; Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 444-448; Broun, "Constantine II".
[4]
Quoted in Wheeler, W.H. (1896). A history of the fens of South Lincolnshire (2 ed.). Boston: J.M.Newcomb. p. 313.

Quick Facts Millennium:, Centuries: ...

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	920s 930s 940s 950s 960s
Years:	940 941 942 943 944 945 946

Quick Facts

943 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	943 CMXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1696
Armenian calendar	392 ԹՎ ՅՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	5693
Balinese saka calendar	864–865
Bengali calendar	349–350
Berber calendar	1893
Buddhist calendar	1487
Burmese calendar	305
Byzantine calendar	6451–6452
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3640 or 3433 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3641 or 3434
Coptic calendar	659–660
Discordian calendar	2109
Ethiopian calendar	935–936
Hebrew calendar	4703–4704
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	999–1000
- Shaka Samvat	864–865
- Kali Yuga	4043–4044
Holocene calendar	10943
Iranian calendar	321–322
Islamic calendar	331–332
Japanese calendar	Tengyō 6 (天慶６年)
Javanese calendar	843–844
Julian calendar	943 CMXLIII
Korean calendar	3276
Minguo calendar	969 before ROC 民前969年
Nanakshahi calendar	−525
Seleucid era	1254/1255 AG
Thai solar calendar	1485–1486
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1069 or 688 or −84 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1070 or 689 or −83

Events