Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries: 9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades: 910s  920s  930s  – 940s –  950s  960s  970s
Years: 944 945 946 – 947 – 948 949 950
947 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
947 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 947
CMXLVII
Ab urbe condita 1700
Armenian calendar 396
ԹՎ ՅՂԶ
Bahá'í calendar -897 – -896
Bengali calendar 354
Berber calendar 1897
Buddhist calendar 1491
Burmese calendar 309
Byzantine calendar 6455 – 6456
Chinese calendar 丙午年十二月初七日
(3583/3643-12-7) 丁未年十一月十七日
(3584/3644-11-17)
Coptic calendar 663 – 664
Ethiopian calendar 939 – 940
Hebrew calendar 4707 – 4708
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1002 – 1003
 - Shaka Samvat 869 – 870
 - Kali Yuga 4048 – 4049
Holocene calendar 10947
Iranian calendar 325 – 326
Islamic calendar 335 – 336
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3280
Thai solar calendar 1490

Events

By place

Asia

• The Later Jin Dynasty falls to the Later Han Dynasty (founded by Gaozu of Later Han) in China.
• The Khitan Empire adopts the dynastic name "Great Liao".
• Masudi completes first version of The Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems, an important history book.

Europe

• Horsham in West Sussex gets its first mention in King Eadred's Charter.

Births

Deaths

• Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, Toltec ruler
• May 18—Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty

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