940s BC

Millennium:	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
940s BC-related categories:	Births – Deaths

Events and trends

• 949 BC Mahaparinirvana of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni Siddharta, according to far eastern schools of Buddhism .
• 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.
• 940 BC—The Temple of Solomon was finished being built.

Significant people