952

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	930s 940s 950s 960s 970s
Years:	949 950 951 952 953 954 955

952 in various calendars

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	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1078 or 697 or −75     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1079 or 698 or −74

Berengar of Ivrea (left) bows to Otto I.

Year 952 (CMLII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

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

References

1. Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 247. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
2. Early Sources, p. 451. The corresponding entry in the Annals of the Four Masters, 950, states that the Northmen were the victors, which would suggest that it should be associated with Eric Bloodaxe.
3. Lynch, Michael, ed. (February 24, 2011). The Oxford companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780199693054.