943
Year 943 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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 to the Hungarians. His frontiers now 'protected' on the Balkan Peninsula, Romanos sends a Byzantine expeditionary force led by general John Kourkouas to invade northern Mesopotamia.
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.
- Battle of Wels: A joint Bavarian–Carantanian army led by Bertold defeats the Hungarians near Wels, 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'.
Births
- Dayang Jingxuan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk
- Edgar I, king of England
- Emma of Paris, duchess consort of Normandy
- Ibn Zur'a, Abbasid physician and philosopher
- Matilda, queen consort of Burgundy
Deaths
- February 23
- * David I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti
- * Herbert II, Frankish nobleman
- February 26 - Muirchertach mac Néill, king of Ailech
- March 16 - Pi Guangye, chancellor of Wuyue
- March 30 - Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang
- April 6
- * Liu Churang, Chinese general
- * Nasr II, Samanid emir
- April 10 - Landulf I, prince of Benevento and Capua
- April 15 - Liu Bin, emperor of Southern Han
- April 18 - Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman
- July 4 - Wang Kon, founder of Goryeo
- July 26 - Motoyoshi, Japanese nobleman and poet
- November 8 - Liu, empress of Qi
- Cao Zhongda, official and chancellor of Wuyue
- Gagik I of Vaspurakan, Armenian king
- Liu Honggao, chancellor of Southern Han
- Sinan ibn Thabit, Persian physician
- Urchadh mac Murchadh, king of Maigh Seóla
- Xu Jie, Chinese officer and chancellor
- Zhang Yuxian, Chinese rebel leader