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Calendar year
The
Bulgarians rout the
Byzantine army at
Boulgarophygon (from the
Madrid Skylitzes )
Year 896 (
DCCCXCVI ) was a
leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
February – King
Arnulf of Carinthia invades
Italy at the head of an
East Frankish expeditionary army. He storms
Rome (the
Leonine City ), and has himself crowned
Holy Roman Emperor by
Pope Formosus at
St. Peter's . Arnulf sets out to establish his authority in
Spoleto , but suffers a
stroke ; he is forced to call off the campaign, and returns to
Bavaria .
March – King
Lambert II proceeds to re-conquer Italy. Heading north, he captures western
Lombardy , and
decapitates count Maginulf of Milan. In the meantime, the deposed king
Berengar I recovers
Verona (
March of Friuli ) from Arnulf's candidate, count
Walfred of Verona , who dies in office with "great fidelity to the emperor".
[1]
Battle of Southern Buh : Bulgarian forces under
Simeon I ('the Great') defeat the
Magyars , near the banks of the
Southern Buh river (modern
Ukraine ). The Magyars withdraw from
Bulgaria , and are forced to
migrate to new
pastures . Led by
Árpád , they settle in the
Carpathian Basin (modern
Hungary ).
[2]
Summer –
Battle of Boulgarophygon : Simeon I invades the
Theme of Thrace (in the southeastern
Balkans ). The
Byzantines transfer a new army to
Europe , to deal with the Bulgarian threat. The armies clash at
Boulgarophygon (modern
Turkey ); the Byzantines are completely destroyed in battle.
[3]
November – Lambert II and Berengar I agree to sign a treaty at
Pavia . Berengar receives the
realm between the
Adda and the
Po , while the rest stays under the control of Lambert (including the
March of Tuscany ). They share
Bergamo , and Lambert pledges to marry Gisela, Berengar's daughter.
[4]
Prince
Klonimir , pretender to the
throne of the
Serbian Principality , is defeated by his ruling cousin,
Petar . He is recognized as sole ruler of Serbia by Simeon I, resulting in a 20-year peace and
alliance (approximate date).
[5]
Britain
Arabian Empire
China
By topic
Religion
Births
Deaths
January 18 –
Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun , ruler of the
Tulunid Dynasty (b.
864 )
April 4 –
Formosus , pope of the
Catholic Church
April –
Boniface VI , pope of the Catholic Church
May 17 –
Liu Jianfeng , Chinese
warlord
June 1 –
Theodosius Romanus ,
Syriac Orthodox patriarch of
Antioch
July 3 –
Dong Chang , Chinese warlord
Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh , Muslim
emir
Abu Hanifa Dinawari , Muslim
botanist and
geographer (b.
815 )
Adarnase III , Georgian prince
Anselm II , archbishop of
Milan
Berengar II , Frankish
nobleman
Cui Zhaowei ,
chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
Flann mac Lonáin , Irish poet
Gerolf of Holland , count of
Friesland (or
895 )
Ibn al-Rumi , Muslim
poet (b.
836 )
Klonimir , Serbian prince (approximate date)
Miro the Elder , count of
Conflent (
Spain )
Rafi ibn Harthama , ruler of
Greater Khorasan
Rustam I , ruler of the
Bavand Dynasty (
Iran )
Sahl al-Tustari , Persian
scholar (approximate date)
Sitriuc mac Ímair , king of
Dublin
Walfred of Friuli , Lombard nobleman
References
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The Annals of Fulda
Archived February 26, 2010, at the
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The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 139.
ISBN
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^
Kazhdan, Alexander , ed. (1991).
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. p. 317.
ISBN
0-19-504652-8 .
^ Sismondi, History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages , p. 24.
^ Fine 1991, p. 141.
^ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great , p. 139.
ISBN
978-1-59416-087-5 .
^
Kennedy, Hugh N. (1993).
"al-Muʿtaḍid Bi'llāh" . In
Bosworth, C. E. ;
van Donzel, E. ;
Heinrichs, W. P. &
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ISBN
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