948

By place

Byzantine Empire

• 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.

  Europe

• Two Hungarian armies invade Bavaria and Carinthia. One of them is defeated at Flozzun in the Nordgau by Henry I, duke of Bavaria.
• 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.

  England

• 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.
• St. Albans School founded.

  Africa

• Spring - Fatimid forces under Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi suppress the rebellion in Palermo and swiftly seize the island. Caliph Al-Mansur Billah appoints Ali al-Kalbi as emir of Sicily, beginning the rule of the Kalbid Dynasty.
• The Kingdom of Nri is founded by the priest-king Eri.

  China

• 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.

  By topic

Literature

• 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.

  Religion

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