Explore 42 historical events from 950–959.
Feng Dao, courtesy name Kedao, posthumous title the Wenyi Prince of Ying, was a Chinese inventor, printer, and official. He was a government official during the Five Dynasties and …
Feng Dao, Chinese prince and chancellor (born 882)
Louis IV, called d'Outremer or Transmarinus, reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only son of king Charles the Simple an…
Louis IV, king of West Francia (born 920)
Louis IV, called d'Outremer or Transmarinus, reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only son of king Charles the Simple an…
Louis IV of France (born 920)
Guo Zongxun or Chai Zongxun, also known by his posthumous name as the Emperor Gong of Later Zhou, was the third and last emperor of the Later Zhou dynasty during the Five Dynasties…
Guo Zongxun, Chinese emperor (died 973)
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, also known by his honorific title of Umdat al-Dawla, was a Buyid prince, who was the youngest son of the Buyid ruler Mu'izz al-Dawla.
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, Buyid prince
Shulü Ping, nickname Yueliduo (月里朵), formally Empress Yingtian also known as Empress Di (地皇后) during the reign of her husband Emperor Taizu of Liao, posthumous name initially Empre…
Yingtian, Chinese Khitan empress (born 879)
Murong Yanchao, known at one point as Yan Kunlun (閻崑崙), was a Chinese general of the Later Tang, Later Jin, and Later Han dynasties. As a half-brother of the Later Han founding emp…
Murong Yanchao, Chinese general
Lady Wu Hanyue (吳漢月), formally the Lady Dowager Gongyi of Wuyue (吳越國恭懿太夫人), was the mother of Qian Chu, the fifth and final king of the Chinese state Wuyue of the Five Dynasties an…
Wu Hanyue, Chinese noblewoman (born 913)
Emperor Suzaku was the 61st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Suzaku, emperor of Japan (born 923)
Gao Xingzhou (高行周), courtesy name Shangzhi (尚質), formally Prince Wuyi of Qin (秦武懿王), was a Chinese military general, monarch, and politician who served the Five Dynasties and Ten K…
Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (born 885)
Lu Wenji, courtesy name Zichi (子持), was a Chinese official who served the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou dynasties. He was a chancellor during the re…
Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (born 876)
Zhao Ying, courtesy name Yuanhui (元輝), was a Chinese historian, military general, and politician of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Later Tang and Later Jin stat…
Zhao Ying, Chinese chancellor (born 885)
Emperor Shizong of Liao, personal name Wuyu, sinicised name Yelü Ruan, was the third emperor of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China. He was the son of Yelü Bei, the eldest son of …
Shi Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (born 919)
Empress Dowager Xiao, formally Empress Rouzhen (柔貞皇后), was an empress dowager of the Khitan-led Chinese Liao dynasty. She was a concubine of Yelü Bei and the mother of Emperor Shiz…
Xiao, Chinese Khitan empress dowager
Empress Zhen was an empress of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China. She was one of the two empresses of Emperor Shizong.
Zhen, Chinese Khitan empress consort
Xiao Sagezhi, posthumous name Empress Huaijie (懷節皇后), was an empress consort of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty of China. She was one of the two empresses of Emperor Shizong and was t…
Xiao Sagezhi, Chinese Khitan empress
Emperor Reizei was the 63rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Reizei, Japanese emperor (died 1011)
Empress Li was a princess of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Tang and an empress of the succeeding Later Jin.
Li, Chinese empress consort