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

Events

= By place =

== 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.Brian Todd Cary (2012). Road to Manzikert – Byanztine and Islamic Warfare (527–1071), p. 81. {{ISBN|978-184884-215-1}}. 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 ==

== 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.Woolf, Pictland to Alba, p. 175; Anderson, Early Sources, pp. 444-448; Broun, "Constantine II".
  • The Trinity Bridge at Crowland, Lincolnshire is described, in the 'Charter of Eadred'.Quoted in {{cite book|first=W.H.|last=Wheeler|title=A history of the fens of South Lincolnshire|edition=2|year=1896|publisher=J.M.Newcomb|location=Boston|page= 313}}

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