948

Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	920s 930s 940s 950s 960s
Years:	945 946 947 948 949 950 951

948 by topic
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948 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	948 CMXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1701
Armenian calendar	397 ԹՎ ՅՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	5698
Balinese saka calendar	869–870
Bengali calendar	355
Berber calendar	1898
Buddhist calendar	1492
Burmese calendar	310
Byzantine calendar	6456–6457
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3645 or 3438 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3646 or 3439
Coptic calendar	664–665
Discordian calendar	2114
Ethiopian calendar	940–941
Hebrew calendar	4708–4709
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1004–1005
- Shaka Samvat	869–870
- Kali Yuga	4048–4049
Holocene calendar	10948
Iranian calendar	326–327
Islamic calendar	336–337
Japanese calendar	Tenryaku 2 (天暦２年)
Javanese calendar	848–849
Julian calendar	948 CMXLVIII
Korean calendar	3281
Minguo calendar	964 before ROC 民前964年
Nanakshahi calendar	−520
Seleucid era	1259/1260 AG
Thai solar calendar	1490–1491
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1074 or 693 or −79 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1075 or 694 or −78

Year 948 (CMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Arab–Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into Asia Minor. The Byzantines respond with reprisals led by Leo Phokas the Younger, taking captives and razing the walls of Hadath (modern Turkey).^[1]

Two Hungarian armies invade Bavaria and Carinthia. One of them is defeated at Flozzun in the Nordgau by Henry I, duke of Bavaria.^[2]
King Otto I appoints his son Liudolf as duke of Swabia, consolidating Ottonian dominance in Southern Germany.
Sunifred II of Urgell dies without descendants and is succeeded by his nephew Borrell II, count of Barcelona.

King Eadred ravages Northumbria and burns down St. Wilfrid's church at Ripon. On his way home, he sustains heavy losses at Castleford. Eadred manages to check his rivals, and the Northumbrians are forced to pay him compensation.^[3]
St. Albans School is founded in Hertfordshire.^[4]

Spring – Fatimid forces under al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi suppress the rebellion in Palermo and swiftly seize the island. Caliph al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah appoints Ali al-Kalbi as emir of Sicily, beginning the rule of the Kalbid dynasty.
The Kingdom of Nri (modern Nigeria) is founded by the priest-king Eri (until 1041).^[5]

February 12 – King Qian Hongzong is deposed by general Hu Jinsi during a coup. He establishes his younger brother Qian Chu as ruler of Wuyue.

Minamoto no Kintada, a Japanese official and waka poet, dies. He is a respected nobleman at the imperial court and a member of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.

Otto I establishes the missionary dioceses of Brandenburg and Havelberg in the territory of the Marca Geronis (Saxon Eastern March).
The Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of the most significant Hindu temples in the Jaffna District (modern Sri Lanka), is built.
St Albans School in Hertfordshire is founded by Wulsin, an abbot of St Alban's Abbey, England.

^ Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 487–489, ISBN 0-8047-2630-2
^ Bóna, István (2000). The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries. Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 27. ISBN 963-8312-67-X.
^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS D, 948, but the Historia Regum gives 950.
^ F.I. Kilvington, A Short History of St Albans School (1986)
^ Onwuejeogwu, M. Angulu (1981). Igbo Civilization: Nri Kingdom & Hegemony. Ethnographica. ISBN 0-905788-08-7.