Explore 45 historical events from 940–949.
Edmund I or Eadmund I was King of the English from 27 October 939 until his death in 946. He was the elder son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife, Queen Eadgifu, and a gra…
King Edmund I of England was murdered at Pucklechurch on the feast day of St Augustine
Zhuo Yanming (卓巖明), né Zhuo Yansi (卓偃巳), dharma name Timing (體明), was a Buddhist monk in the late years of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Min state. After the M…
Zhuo Yanming, Chinese Buddhist monk and emperor
Hyejong, personal name Wang Mu, was the second king of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea. He was preceded by King Taejo and succeeded by King Jeongjong.
Hyejong of Goryeo, Korean king (born 912)
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Jaʿfar al-Muqtadir better known by his regnal title al-Muttaqi was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 940 to 944. His reign marked the start of the 'later Abb…
Caliph al-Muttaqi is blinded and deposed by the Turkish general Tuzun.
Wichmann I the Elder was a member of the Saxon House of Billung. He was a brother of Amelung, Bishop of Verden, and Herman, Duke of Saxony.
Wichmann the Elder, Saxon nobleman
Fujiwara no Atsutada was a mid-Heian waka and Japanese nobleman.
Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman and poet (born 906)
Taejo, personal name Wang Kŏn, also known as Taejo Wang Kŏn, was the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. He ruled from 918 to 943, achieving unification of the Later Three King…
Taejo of Goryeo, Korean king (born 877)
Prince Motoyoshi was a poet and nobleman of the Heian period. One of his poems is included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu as number 20 in the anthology. Twenty of his poems were inclu…
Motoyoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet (born 890)
A Hungarian raid in Spain took place in July 942. This was the furthest west the Hungarians raided during the period of their migration into central Europe; although, in a great ra…
A Magyar raiding army defeats forces of the Muslim frontier state of Fraxinetum
Liu Yan, né Liu Yan (劉巖), also named Liu Zhi (劉陟) and briefly as Liu Gong (劉龔), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Southern Han (南漢高祖), was the first emperor of …
Liu Yan, emperor of Southern Han (born 889)
Shi Jingtang, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin (後晉高祖), was the founding emperor of the Later Jin dynasty of China during the Five Dynasties and Ten K…
Shi Jingtang, emperor of Later Jin (born 892)
Empress Dowager Liu was an empress dowager of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Jin.
Liu, empress dowager of Later Jin
The Battle of al-Mada'in was fought near al-Mada'in in central Iraq between the armies of the Hamdanids and the Baridis, for control over Baghdad, the capital and seat of the Abbas…
Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdanids of Mosul and the Baridis of Basra over control of…
Lê Hoàn, posthumously title Lê Đại Hành, was the founding emperor of the Early Lê dynasty, who ruled Đại Cồ Việt from 981 to 1005. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of th…
Lê Hoàn, Vietnamese emperor (died 1005)
Abū al-Husayn Bajkam al-Mākānī, referred to as Bajkam, Badjkam or Bachkam, was a Turkish military commander and official of the Abbasid Caliphate. A former ghulam of the Ziyarid dy…
Bajkam, de facto regent of the Abbasid Caliphate
Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī or Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad. He made …
Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (died 998)
Eutychius of Alexandria was the Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria. He is known for being one of the first Christian Egyptian writers to use the Arabic language. His writings include …
Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (born 877)
Qian Hongzun (錢弘僔), formally Heir Apparent Xiaoxian, was an heir apparent to the throne of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Wuyue during most of the reign o…
Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (born 925)
Wang Jianli (王建立), formally the Prince of Han (韓王), was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Tang and Later Jin, who also briefly served as a…
Wang Jianli, Chinese general (born 871)
Li Decheng (李德誠), formally Prince Zhongyi of Zhao (趙忠懿王), was a prominent general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Wu state. He and his family would remain hig…
Li Decheng, Chinese general (born 863)
Fan Yanguang (范延光), courtesy name Zihuan (子環) or Zigui (子瓌), formally the Prince of Dongping (東平王), was a general from the state of Later Tang and Later Jin during the Chinese Five…
Fan Yanguang, Chinese general