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Calendar year
Battle of Lechfeld on an illustration of
1457 .
Year 955 (
CMLV ) was a
common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
August 10 –
Battle of Lechfeld : King
Otto I ("the Great") defeats the
Hungarians (also known as
Magyars ) near
Augsburg (
Germany ). Otto's army (7,000 men), mainly composed of heavy cavalry, overwhelms the Hungarians along the
Lech River . The German losses are heavy, among them
Conrad ("the Red") and many other nobles. The commanders of the Hungarian army,
Bulcsú and
Lehel , are captured and executed. This victory puts an end to the
Hungarian campaigns into western Europe .
[1]
October 16 –
Battle on the Raxa : Otto I, allied with the
Rani tribe, defeats the
Obotrite federation, led by
Nako and his brother
Stoigniew (probably at the
Recknitz or
Elde rivers) near
Mecklenburg . The
Elbe Slavs are forced to pay
tribute , and accept a peace agreement.
[2]
England
Africa
By topic
Religion
Births
May 10 –
Al-Aziz Billah , caliph of the
Fatimid Caliphate (d.
996 )
October 22 –
Qian Weijun , king of
Wuyue (
Ten Kingdoms ) (d.
991 )
November 9 –
Gyeongjong of Goryeo , ruler of
Korea (d.
981 )
Aboazar Lovesendes , Portuguese
nobleman (approximate date)
Ælfric of Eynsham , English
abbot and writer (approximate date)
Arduin of Ivrea (I), Lombard
margrave and
king of Italy (approximate date)
Eido I (or Ägidius), German nobleman and bishop (d.
1015 )
Ezzo (or Ehrenfried), Count Palatine of Lotharingia (Germany) (approximate date)
Gisela of Burgundy , duchess of
Bavaria (approximate date)
Gunther of Bohemia , German
hermit and saint (d.
1045 )
Lutgardis of Luxemburg , countess of
Holland (
Netherlands )
Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg , German princess-abbess and daughter of
Otto I (d.
999 )
Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor ("the Red") (d.
983 )
Theophanu , empress consort of the
Holy Roman Empire (d.
991 )
Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu , king of the
Pagan dynasty (d.
1048 )
Deaths
July 23 –
He Ning , Chinese official and
chancellor (b.
898 )
August 10
October 16 –
Stoigniew , Obotrite prince and co-ruler
November 1 –
Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
November 8 –
Pope Agapetus II ,
Catholic Church pontiff (b.
905 )
November 23 –
Eadred (or Edred), king of
England (b.
923 )
Abu 'Ali Chaghani , ruler of
Chaghaniyan (
Turkmenistan )
Bermudo Núñez , count of
Cea (
Spain ) (approximate date)
Gamle Eirikssen , Norwegian
Viking ruler (b.
910 )
Hervé I , count of
Mortagne and Perche
Lehel , Hungarian tribal chieftain (horka )
Muhammad ibn Shaddad , Shaddadid ruler
Parantaka I , ruler of
Chola Kingdom (
India )
Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan , Kara-Khanid ruler
References
^ Bóna, István (2000). The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries. Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 54.
ISBN
963-8312-67-X .
^ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III , p. 248.
ISBN
978-0-521-36447-8 .
^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518) . Paris: La Découverte; p.28.