937
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century · 10th century · 11th century |
| Decades: | 900s · 910s · 920s · 930s · 940s · 950s · 960s |
| Years: | 934 · 935 · 936 · 937 · 938 · 939 · 940 |
| 937 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 937 CMXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1690 |
| Armenian calendar | 386 ԹՎ ՅՁԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5687 |
| Bengali calendar | 344 |
| Berber calendar | 1887 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1481 |
| Burmese calendar | 299 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6445–6446 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3633 or 3573 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3634 or 3574 |
| Coptic calendar | 653–654 |
| Discordian calendar | 2103 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 929–930 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4697–4698 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 993–994 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 858–859 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4037–4038 |
| Holocene calendar | 10937 |
| Iranian calendar | 315–316 |
| Islamic calendar | 325–326 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōhei 7 (承平７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 837–838 |
| Julian calendar | 937 CMXXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3270 |
| Minguo calendar | 975 before ROC 民前975年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −531 |
| Seleucid era | 1248/1249 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1479–1480 |
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Year 937 (CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- The Wu State is taken from within by Li Bian, who then founds the Southern Tang Kingdom.
Europe
- Battle of Brunanburh: King Athelstan of England defeats the Viking king of Dublin, the Scots, and Strathclyde.
- The Hungarian army battles with a French army led by Ebbo of Chateauroux, who dies after the battle. After that the Hungarians reach the Atlantic ocean and turn towards Burgundy, where they burn the city of Tournus, than go to southern Italy, pillaging the environs of Naples, Benevento, Sarno, Monte Cassino. When they return home, they are attacked in the Abruzzo mountains, losing their plunders.
- September 21 – Magdeburg is now the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, after a Diet held by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.
Births
- Duke William IV of Aquitaine (d. 995)
- Gu Hongzhong
Deaths
- July 11 – King Rudolph II of Burgundy
- July 14 – Duke Arnulf I of Bavaria
- Marozia, politically active Roman noblewoman (b. 890)
References
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