952
Calendar year
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Year 952 (CMLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
| Gregorian calendar | 952 CMLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1705 |
| Armenian calendar | 401 ԹՎ ՆԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5702 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 873–874 |
| Bengali calendar | 358–359 |
| Berber calendar | 1902 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1496 |
| Burmese calendar | 314 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6460–6461 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3649 or 3442 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3650 or 3443 |
| Coptic calendar | 668–669 |
| Discordian calendar | 2118 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 944–945 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4712–4713 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1008–1009 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 873–874 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4052–4053 |
| Holocene calendar | 10952 |
| Iranian calendar | 330–331 |
| Islamic calendar | 340–341 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenryaku 6 (天暦６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 852–853 |
| Julian calendar | 952 CMLII |
| Korean calendar | 3285 |
| Minguo calendar | 960 before ROC 民前960年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −516 |
| Seleucid era | 1263/1264 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1494–1495 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1078 or 697 or −75 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1079 or 698 or −74 |
Events
By place
Europe
- Summer – At the Reichstag in Augsburg (assembled by King Otto I), joined by German nobles and bishops, Berengar of Ivrea pays homage. He becomes a vassal of the East Frankish Kingdom. Otto leaves a strong garrison at Pavia in the hands of his son-in-law Conrad the Red, duke of Lotharingia.[1]
Scotland
- King Constantine II dies at the monastery of St. Andrews (where he has been retired since 943). His cousin and ruling monarch, Malcolm I, fights a battle against the Northmen or the Norse–Gaels.[2]
Africa
- Summer – Kalbid forces under Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi (an aristocratic member of the ruling Fatimid Caliphate) sail from Sicily and invade Byzantine Calabria. He attacks several towns, including Gerace and Cassono.
Births
- Adelaide of Aquitaine, French queen consort (or 945)
- Adela of Hamaland, Frankish countess and regent (d. 1021)
- Fakhr al-Dawla, emir of Gurgan and Tabaristan (d. 997)
- Sa'd al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir of Aleppo (d. 991)
- Song, Chinese empress consort (d. 995)
Deaths
- June 15 – Murong Yanchao, Chinese general
- July 17 – Wu Hanyue, Chinese noblewoman (b. 913)
- September 6 – Suzaku, emperor of Japan (b. 923)
- September 10 – Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (b. 885)
- December 17 – Hugh the Black, duke of Burgundy
- date unknown
- Alan II (Wrybeard), duke of Brittany
- Constantine II, king of Alba (Scotland)[3]
- Li Jianxun, Chinese official and chancellor
- Mansur ibn Qara-Tegin, Samanid governor