943

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

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'.

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)