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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 .
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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