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Year 946 (CMXLVI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Emperor Murakami succeeds Emperor Suzaku as Emperor of Japan.
  • Battle of Baghdad (946): The Buyid Emirate defeats the Hamdanid Emirate, for control of the city.
  • c. November 3 – Super-colossal (VEI-7) eruption of Paektu Mountain on modern North Korea-China border.

    • Europe

  • Eadred I succeeds his brother as king of England.

    • Religion

  • May 10 – Pope Agapitus II succeeds Pope Marinus II, as the 129th pope.

    • Births

  • Theodora, daughter of Constantine VII

    • Deaths

  • May 17 – Al Qa'im, second Fatimid caliph.
  • May 26 – Edmund I, king of England
  • July 24 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, ruler of Egypt, founder of the Ikhshidid dynasty (b. 882)
  • August 1 – Ali ibn Isa al-Jarrah, Abbasid vizier (b. 859)
  • Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli

    • References

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