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Calendar year
The Earth's
Eastern Hemisphere (c. 900)
Gunnbjörn discovers
Greenland (c. 900)
Year 900 (
CM ) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
It was the 900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the 9th century, and the first year of the 900s decade.
Events
By place
Europe
Spring –
Atenulf I , Lombard prince of
Capua , conquers the
Duchy of Benevento . He deposes Duke
Radelchis II and unites the two southern
Lombard duchies in
Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy). The
Byzantines offer a strategic
alliance to Atenulf who directs a campaign against the
Saracens . They have establish themselves on the banks of the
Garigliano River . From here,
Arab warbands launch frequent raids in
Campania .
[4]
February 4 – The 7-year-old
Louis IV ("the Child") is proclaimed king of the
East Frankish Kingdom at an assembly at
Forchheim (
Bavaria ). Because of his young age, the reins of government are entirely in the hands of others – the Frankish
nobles and bishops. The most influential of Louis' councillors are
Hatto I , archbishop of
Mainz , and
Solomon III , bishop of
Constance .
[5]
June 8 –
Edward the Elder (son of
Alfred the Great ) is crowned king of
England at
Kingston upon Thames .
[6]
June 17 –
Baldwin II, Count of Flanders has
Fulk the Venerable, bishop of Reims , assassinated.
[7]
June 29 – The
Venetians repel the Magyar raiders at
Rialto .
[8]
Summer – After the death of his wife
Zoe Zaoutzaina , the Byzantine emperor
Leo VI marries
Eudokia Baïana .
[9]
August –
Abdallah , son of the
Aghlabid emir
Ibrahim II , represses a revolt of his Muslim subjects, and then initiates a campaign against the last Byzantine strongholds in
Sicily .
[3]
August 13 –
Zwentibold , king of
Lotharingia , is killed in battle on the
Meuse River , while fighting against his rebellious subjects; subsequently they recognize Louis IV as their rightful suzerain - Lotharingia is then converted from a kingdom to a duchy.
[10]
October 12 – Following
Magyars raids in
Lombardy , king
Louis III ("the Blind") is called to
Italy by the grandees. He takes
Pavia , forcing king
Berengar I to flee, and replaces him as
King of Italy .
[11]
King
Donald II is killed after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded by his cousin
Constantine II as king of
Scotland ;
[12] he will reign for more than 40 years.
Docibilis I of Gaeta and his
Saracen mercenaries attack
Capua , in vain.
[13]
After the rejection of their alliance proposal by the
Bavarians , the
Hungarians attack this country, occupying
Pannonia and parts of
Ostmark , which become part of the Hungarian state.
Asia
Mesoamerica
By topic
Art
Religion
Commerce
Exploration
Medicine
Births
Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin , Persian
astronomer (d.
971 )
Adaldag , archbishop of
Bremen (approximate date)
Berengar II , king of
Italy (approximate date)
Berthold , duke of
Bavaria (approximate date)
Conrad , bishop of
Constance (approximate date)
Fujiwara no Saneyori , Japanese statesman (d.
970 )
Gero , archbishop of
Cologne (approximate date)
Gero , Frankish
nobleman (approximate date)
John of Gorze , Frankish
abbot and diplomat (d.
974 )
Mord Fiddle , Icelandic farmer and
law expert (d.
968 )
Nicodemus of Mammola , Italian monk (d.
990 )
Ramiro II , king of
León (approximate date)
Ramwold , Frankish abbot (approximate date)
Rasso , Frankish military leader (approximate date)
Yang Pu , emperor of
Wu (d.
939 )
Deaths
June 17 –
Fulk , archbishop of
Reims
July 8 –
Qatr al-Nada , wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid
[16]
August 13 –
Zwentibold , king of
Lotharingia (b.
870 )
Donald II , king of the
Picts (
Scotland )
[17]
Dongshan Shouchu , Chinese
Zen teacher
Eardulf , bishop of
Lindisfarne (approximate date)
Fujiwara no Takafuji , Japanese nobleman (b.
838 )
Ibn Abi Asim , Muslim
Sunni scholar (b.
822 )
John IX , pope of the
Catholic Church
Lde-dpal-hkhor-btsan , Indian ruler
Litan , Irish abbot (approximate date)
Liu Chongwang ,
chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
Li Zhirou , chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
Merfyn ap Rhodri , king of
Powys (approximate date)
Muhammad ibn Zayd , emir of
Tabaristan (
Iran )
Ono no Komachi , Japanese
poet (approximate date)
Tadg mac Conchobair , king of
Connacht (
Ireland )
Wang Tuan , chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
Wulfhere , archbishop of
York (approximate date)
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ISBN
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