Year 943 (CMXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring Allied with the Rus', a Hungarian army raids Moesia and Thrace. Emperor Romanos I buys peace, and accepts to pay a yearly tribute (protection money) to the Hungarians. His frontiers now 'protected' on the Balkan Peninsula, Romanos sends a Byzantine expeditionary force (80,000 men) led by general John Kourkouas (his commander-in-chief) to invade northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).

Europe

• Caspian expeditions of the Rus': The Rus' under the Varangian prince Igor I of Kiev sail up the Kura River, deep into the Caucasus, and defeat the forces of the Sallarid ruler Marzuban ibn Muhammad. They capture the fortress city of Barda (modern Azerbaijan).

• Battle of Wels: A joint Bavarian–Carantanian army led by Bertold (duke of Bavaria) defeats the Hungarians near Wels (Upper Austria), who are attacked at a crossing of the Enns River at Ennsburg.

England

• King Edmund I ravages Strathclyde and defeats the Scottish king Constantine II, who has reigned as king of Alba since 900. Constantine, ruler of the 'Picts and Scots', abdicates to enter a monastery and yields control of his realm to his cousin Malcolm I.

• The Trinity Bridge at Crowland, Lincolnshire is described, in the 'Charter of Eadred'.

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Births

• Dayang Jingxuan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1027)

• Edgar I (the Peaceful), king of England (approximate date)

• Emma of Paris, duchess consort of Normandy (d. 968)

• Ibn Zur'a, Abbasid physician and philosopher (d. 1008)

• Matilda, queen consort of Burgundy (approximate date)

Deaths

February 23

• David I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)

• Herbert II, Frankish nobleman

  February 26 Muirchertach mac Néill, king of Ailech (Ireland)

• March 16 Pi Guangye, chancellor of Wuyue (b. 877)

• March 30 Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (b. 889)

April 6

• Liu Churang, Chinese general (b. 881)

• Nasr II, Samanid emir (b. 906)

• April 10 Landulf I, prince of Benevento and Capua (Italy)

• April 15 Liu Bin, emperor of Southern Han (b. 920)

• April 18 Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman (b. 906)

• July 4 Wang Kon, founder of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 877)

• July 26 Motoyoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet (b. 890)

• November 8 Liu, empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (b. 877)

• Cao Zhongda, official and chancellor of Wuyue (b. 882)

• Gagik I of Vaspurakan, Armenian king (or 936)

• Liu Honggao, chancellor of Southern Han (b. 923)

• Sinan ibn Thabit, Persian physician (b. 880)

• Urchadh mac Murchadh, king of Maigh Seóla (Ireland)

• Xu Jie, Chinese officer and chancellor (b. 868)

• Zhang Yuxian, Chinese rebel leader (approximate date)

References