Editing 949

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Year '''949''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CMXLIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Byzantine Empire ====
* [[Arab-Byzantine wars#Byzantine resurgence, 863-11th century|Arab-Byzantine War]]: [[Hamdanid dynasty|Hamdanid]] forces under [[Sayf al-Dawla]] raid into the [[Theme (Byzantine district)|theme]] of [[Lykandos]], but are defeated. The [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] counter-attack and seize [[Kahramanmaraş|Germanikeia]], defeating an army from [[Tarsus (city)|Tarsus]], and raiding as far south as [[Antioch]]. General (''[[Strategos#Byzantine use|strategos]]'') [[Theophilos Kourkouas]] captures [[Theodosiopolis (Armenia)|Theodosiopolis]] (modern-day [[Erzurum]]) after a 7-month [[siege]].<ref name="Treadgold949">{{citation | title = A History of the Byzantine State and Society | last = Treadgold | first = Warren T. | year = 1997 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, CA | isbn = 0-8047-2630-2 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC | page = 489}}</ref>

==== Europe ====
* A Byzantine expeditionary force under [[Constantine Gongyles]] attempts to re-conquer the [[Emirate of Crete]] from the [[Saracens]]. The expedition ends in a disastrous failure; the Byzantine camp is destroyed in a surprise attack. Gongyles himself barely escapes on his flagship.<ref name="Treadgold949"/>
*[[Abd al-Rahman III]] the ''[[Caliphate|Caliph]]'' of [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]] declares [[Jihad]], preparing a large army & conquers the city of [[Lugo]] in the extreme North of [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberia]]. This raid shows to be one of the furthest raids Muslims in [[Spain]] ever conducted, done as a show of strength of the [[Caliphate of Córdoba|Muslim State in Al-Andalus.]]
* King [[Miroslav of Croatia|Miroslav]] (or Miroslaus) is killed by ''[[Ban (title)|Ban]]'' [[Pribina, Ban of Croatia|Pribina]] during a civil war started by his younger brother [[Michael Krešimir II of Croatia|Michael Krešimir II]], who succeeds him as ruler of [[Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)|Croatia]].
* Summer &ndash; The [[Principality of Hungary|Hungarians]] defeat a [[Duchy of Bavaria|Bavaria]]n army at [[Laa an der Thaya|Laa]] (modern [[Austria]]).<ref>Bóna, István (2000). ''The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries''. Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 27. {{ISBN|963-8312-67-X}}.</ref>

==== Japan ====
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Fujiwara no Tadahira]], a politician and chancellor (''[[Sesshō and Kampaku|kampaku]]''), dies at his native [[Kyoto]]. Having governed [[Japan]] as [[regent]] under Emperor [[Emperor Suzaku|Suzaku]] since [[930]]. The [[Fujiwara clan]] will continue to hold the regency until [[1180]], controlling the imperial government.
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== Births ==
* [[Fujiwara no Nagatō]], Japanese bureaucrat and [[Japanese poetry|poet]] (d. [[1009]])
* [[Gebhard of Constance]], German bishop (d. [[995]])
* [[Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill]], [[High King of Ireland]] (d. [[1022]])
* [[Mathilde, Abbess of Essen|Mathilde]], German [[abbess]] and granddaughter of [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto I]] (d. [[1011]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ethelwerd|title=The chronicle of Æthelweard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8D1nAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Nelson|page=xiii}}</ref>
* [[Ranna (Kannada poet)|Ranna]], Kannada poet ([[India]]) (approximate date)
* [[Symeon the New Theologian|Symeon]] (the New Theologian), Byzantine monk and poet (d. 1022)
* [[Uma no Naishi]], Japanese [[Nobility|nobleman]] and [[Waka (poetry)|waka]] poet (d. [[1011]])

== Deaths ==
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Godfrey, Count Palatine of Lotharingia|Godfrey]], Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Li Shouzhen]], Chinese general and governor
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Fujiwara no Tadahira]], Japanese statesman and [[regent]] (b. [[880]])
* September/October &ndash; [[Al-Mustakfi|Abdallah ibn al-Mustakfi]], Abbasid caliph (b. [[905]])<ref>{{cite book | first = Harold | last = Bowen | title = The Life and Times of ʿAlí Ibn ʿÍsà: The Good Vizier | year = 1928 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TZM3AAAAIAAJ | page = 385}}</ref>
[[File:Hyakuninisshu 013.jpg|thumb|left|113px|[[Emperor Yozei]]]]
* December &ndash; [[Imad al-Dawla]], founder of the [[Buyid dynasty]] (Iran)
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Odo of Wetterau]], German nobleman 
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Herman I, Duke of Swabia|Herman I]], duke of [[Duchy of Swabia|Swabia]]
*''date unknown''
**[[Consort Dowager An|An]], Chinese imperial consort ([[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period|Five Dynasties]])
**[[Eadric, Ealdorman of Wessex|Eadric]], ealdorman of [[Wessex]] (approximate date)
**[[Jeongjong, 3rd monarch of Goryeo|Jeongjong]], king of [[Goryeo]] (Korea) (b. [[923]])
**[[Miroslav of Croatia|Miroslav]] (or Miroslaus), king of [[Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)|Croatia]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Francis Ralph Preveden|title=A History of the Croatian People from Their Arrival on the Shores of the Adriatic to the Present Day: Prehistory and early period until 1397 A.D|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gfsNAQAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Philosophical Library|page=67}}</ref>
**[[Xiao Han (Liao dynasty)|Xiao Han]], general of the [[Khitan people|Khitan]] [[Liao dynasty]]
**[[Yunmen Wenyan]], Chinese [[Zen]] [[Chinese Buddhism|Buddhist]] monk<ref>{{cite book|author=Beata Grant|title=Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ikRAAAAYAAJ|year=1994|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-1625-4|page=198}}</ref>
**[[Zhao Tingyin]], general of [[Later Shu]] (b. [[883]])

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