945

[edit] Events

[edit] By Place

[edit] Asia

• The Buwayhid Dynasty takes control of Baghdad (it does not supplant the local caliphate).
• The Min Kingdom is taken over by the Southern Tang Kingdom.
• According to Sun Tzu's Art of War, Yen-ch`ing and his colleague were surrounded by 'a vastly superior army of Khitans'.

[edit] Europe

• Edmund I of England conquers Strathclyde.
• Howell the Good convenes a conference at Whitland, which reforms the laws of Wales.
• Lothair II of Italy takes control of Italy (until 950).
• Romanos I is overthrown, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII reigns alone.
• Cumberland and Westmorland are annexed by the Scots.

[edit] By Topic

[edit] Religion

• Saint Dunstan becomes the abbot at Glastonbury.

[edit] Births

• Abbo of Fleury, French monk

[edit] Deaths

• Hamdani, Arab poet, grammarian, geographer, historian and astronomer
• Igor, Grand Prince of Kiev
• Ki no Tsurayuki, courtier of the Heian Period
• King Krešimir I of Croatia