945

This article is about the year 945. For the number, see 945 (number).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	910s  920s  930s  – 940s –  950s  960s  970s
Years:	942 943 944 – 945 – 946 947 948

945 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

945 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	945 CMXLV
Ab urbe condita	1698
Armenian calendar	394 ԹՎ ՅՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	5695
Bengali calendar	352
Berber calendar	1895
Buddhist calendar	1489
Burmese calendar	307
Byzantine calendar	6453–6454
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3641 or 3581     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3642 or 3582
Coptic calendar	661–662
Discordian calendar	2111
Ethiopian calendar	937–938
Hebrew calendar	4705–4706
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1001–1002
- Shaka Samvat	867–868
- Kali Yuga	4046–4047
Holocene calendar	10945
Iranian calendar	323–324
Islamic calendar	333–334
Japanese calendar	Tengyō 8 (天慶８年)
Julian calendar	945 CMXLV
Korean calendar	3278
Minguo calendar	967 before ROC 民前967年
Seleucid era	1256/1257 AG
Thai solar calendar	1487–1488

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

Events

By Place

Asia

• The Buyid dynasty takes control of Baghdad (but does not supplant the local caliphate).
• The Min Kingdom is taken over by the Southern Tang Kingdom in China.
• The Hamdanid Sayf al-Dawla is defeated by Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid near Qinnasrin (May) and forced to abandon his Syrian domains and flee to Al-Raqqah. Nevertheless, in October the two men come to an agreement, which recognizes Hamdanid rule over northern Syria, founding the Emirate of Aleppo.

Europe

• Edmund I of England conquers Strathclyde, forms an alliance with Malcolm I of Scotland and cedes Cumberland and Westmorland to him.
• Hywel Dda convenes a conference at Whitland, which reforms the laws of Wales.
• Lothair II of Italy takes control of Italy (until 950).
• The sons of Romanos I Lekapenos are overthrown barely a month after deposing their father, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII reigns alone.
• Abd-ar-Rahman III first occupies the palace of Medina Azahara as the new capital of the Emirate of Córdoba.

By topic

Religion

• Dunstan becomes Abbot of Glastonbury in England.

Births

• probable
  • Abbo of Fleury, French monk
  • Eric the Victorious, first King of Sweden (970–995)

Deaths

• August – Tuzun, Abbasid general and de facto ruler of the Caliphate since 943 (killed)
• Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Arab poet, grammarian, geographer, historian and astronomer (b. 893)
• Igor of Kiev, Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus'
• Ki no Tsurayuki, Japanese Heian Period author, poet and courtier (b. 872)
• King Krešimir I of Croatia