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

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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.
  • May: The Hamdanid Sayf al-Dawla is defeated by Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid near Qinnasrin, and forced to abandon his Syrian domains and flee to Raqqa. 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.

    • 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

    • References

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