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This article is about the year 900. For the number (and other uses), see 900 (number). For the skateboarding trick, see 900 (skateboarding trick).
Millennium: 1st millennium Centuries: 8th century – 9th century – 10th century Decades: 870s 880s 890s – 900s – 910s 920s 930s Years: 897 898 899 – 900 – 901 902 903 900 by topic Politics State leaders – Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishment and disestablishment categories Establishments – Disestablishments 900 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 900
CMAb urbe condita 1653 Armenian calendar 349
ԹՎ ՅԽԹAssyrian calendar 5650 Bahá'í calendar -944 – -943 Bengali calendar 307 Berber calendar 1850 English Regnal year N/A Buddhist calendar 1444 Burmese calendar 262 Byzantine calendar 6408 – 6409 Chinese calendar 己未年十一月廿六日
(3536/3596-11-26)— to —庚申年十二月初七日
(3537/3597-12-7)Coptic calendar 616 – 617 Ethiopian calendar 892 – 893 Hebrew calendar 4660 – 4661 Hindu calendars - Bikram Samwat 956 – 957 - Shaka Samvat 822 – 823 - Kali Yuga 4001 – 4002 Holocene calendar 10900 Iranian calendar 278 – 279 Islamic calendar 286 – 288 Japanese calendar Korean calendar 3233 Minguo calendar 1012 before ROC
民前1012年Thai solar calendar 1443 Year 900 (CM) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
America
- The Postclassic period starts in Mesoamerica.
Asia
- April 21 – Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon by the Datu of Tondo, as represented Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pila, which released them of all their debts as inscribed in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Philippines.
- May 28 – victory of the Transoxania amir Ismail Samani at Balkh over Amr Saffari, the later is captured and sent to the Abassid caliph in Baghdad.[1] The Samanid dynasty now rules over Khorasan as well as Transoxiana.[2] It marks also the beginning of the dispersion of the local Shi'ites by the new Sunni power.
- Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of Hubaekje in southwestern Korea.
- In India, beginning of the rule of Maravarman Rajasimha II, king of Pandya.[3]
- The Byzantine offensive against the Muslim troops starts anew in Cilicia, Mesopotamia et Armenia.[4]
Europe
- January – the count of Capua Atenulf I conquers the principality of Benevento.[5]
- February 4 – the rule of Louis IV the Child upon Western Francia.[6]
- June 8 – Edward the Elder is crowned king of England at Kingston-upon-Thames.[7]
- June 17 – Baldwin II of Flanders has Fulk the Venerable, bishop of Reims, assassinated.[8]
- June 29 – the Venetians repel the Magyar raiders at Rialto.[9]
- July – soon after the death of his wife Zoe Zaoutzaina, the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise marries Eudokia Baïana.[10]
- August – Abdallah, son of the Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II, represses the revolt of his Muslim subjects and then initiate a campaign against the last Byzantine strongholds of the island.[4]
- August 13 – Zwentibold, king of Lotharingia is killed in battle on the Meuse river while fighting against his rebellious subjects; subsequently they recognize the emperor Louis IV as their rightful suzerain.[11]
- October 12 – following Magyars raids in Lombardia, Louis the Blind, king of Provence, is called in the peninsula by the grandees, takes Pavia forces Berengar of Friuli to flee, and replaces him as crowned king of Italy.[12]
- The rule of Constantine II, king of Scotland.[13]
- Docibilis I of Gaeta and his Saracen mercenaries attack Capua, in vain.[14]
By topic
Art
- c. 900 –1230 – Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, is built. Anasazi culture.
Religion
- April 6 – Pope Benedict IV succeeds Pope John IX as the 117th pope.[15]
Medicine
- The Persian scientist Rhazes distinguishes smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintains "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".
Births
- Abu Jafar Khazeni, Persian astronomer and mathematician
Deaths
- August 13 – Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)
- Domnall II, King of the Picts
- Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims (assassinated by Count Baldwin II of Flanders)
References
- ^ Par Ṭabarī (translated by Franz Rosenthal) (1985). The return of the Caliphate to Baghdad. SUNY Press. ISBN 0873958764. http://books.google.fr/books?id=GcKhwo8SmlMC&pg=PA84.
- ^ René Grousset (1885-1952) (1965) [1938]. L'empire des steppes, Attila, Gengis-Khan, Tamerlan (4 ed.). Paris: Payot. http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/grousset_rene/empire_des_steppes/grousset_steppes.pdf.
- ^ N. Jayapalan (2001). History of India. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. ISBN 8171569285. http://books.google.fr/books?id=tU1yDpYlu38C&pg=PA176.
- ^ a b Louis Bréhier (1946). Vie et mort de Byzance. Paris: Albin Michel. p. 596. http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/brehier_louis/monde_byzantin/brehier_vie_et_mort_byzance.pdf.
- ^ Barbara M. Kreutz Before the Normans University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996 ISBN 9780812215878
- ^ Jacques Flach Les Origines de l'ancienne France. Volume 4 Ayer Publishing ISBN 9780833711472
- ^ N. J. Higham, David Hill Edward the Elder, 899-924 Routledge, 2001 ISBN 9780415214971
- ^ Heinrich Joseph Wetzer Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la théologie catholique Gaume frères et J. Duprey, 1864
- ^ Enrico Guidoni La ville européenne: formation et signification du quatrième au onzième siècle Editions Mardaga, 1981 ISBN 9782870091333
- ^ Theodora Antonopoulou The Homilies of the Emperor Leo VI BRILL, 1997 ISBN 9789004108141
- ^ A. Charguéraud Les batards célèbres M. Lévy, 1859
- ^ Charles Albert Cingria La reine Berthe L'AGE D'HOMME, 1992 ISBN 9782825103470
- ^ Fiona Somerset Fry The history of Scotland Routledge, 1985 ISBN 9780415066013
- ^ Caravale, Mario (ed). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XL Di Fausto – Donadoni. Rome, 1991.
- ^ Artaud de Montor Histoire des souverains pontifes romains Didot, 1846
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