Millennia:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	11th century BC - 10th century BC - 9th century BC
Decades:	970s BC 960s BC 950s BC - 940s BC - 930s BC 920s BC 910s BC
Years:	949 BC 948 BC 947 BC 946 BC 945 BC 944 BC 943 BC 942 BC 941 BC 940 BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths - State leaders - Sovereign states Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 947 BC — Death of Zhou mo wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 946 BC — Zhou gong wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
• 945 BC — Egypt: Psusennes III dies, the last king of the Twenty-first Dynasty. Shoshenq I succeeds him, the founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty.

Significant people