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Year 944 (CMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • The city of Algiers is (re)founded, by the Zirid king Buluggin ibn Ziri.
  • Abu Yazid launches a rebellion against the Fatimids, in the Aures Mountains.

    • Asia

  • The Al-Askari Mosque is built in Samarra (present-day Iraq).
  • Sovereign Kaiyun ascends to power, as part of the Later Jìn Dynasty in China.
  • The Byzantines under Pantherios are defeated by Sayf al-Daula, in northern Syria.
  • Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.
  • October 29 - Sayf al-Dawla captures Aleppo, and extends his control over northern Syria.

    • Europe

  • A great storm sweeps across England, and many houses are destroyed, 1,500 in London alone (a significant proportion of the town).
  • King Edmund I of England takes Northumbria from the Vikings.
  • Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos is deposed as Byzantine emperor by his own sons, Stephen Lekapenos and Constantine Lekapenos.

    • Births

  • Otto, Duke of Burgundy
  • Minamoto no Yorimitsu
  • Fujiwara no Sukemasa
  • Fujiwara no Akimitsu

    • Deaths

  • Flaithbertach mac Inmainén, abbot of Inis Cathaig, Ireland
  • Wilgred of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne
  • Abu Mansur Al Maturidi, Muslim theologian
  • Ngo Quyen, Vietnamese prefect and general
  • Wichmann the Elder, Saxon nobleman
  • Donnchad Donn, King of Ireland
  • Empress Li (Wang Yanxi)

    • References

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