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Calendar year
Otto I is crowned king at
Aachen Cathedral
Year 936 (
CMXXXVI ) was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
June 19 – At
Laon ,
Louis IV , the 14-year old son of the late King
Charles the Simple , is crowned
King of West Francia after being recalled from
Wessex by
Hugh the Great , count of
Paris . Hugh, whose father, King
Robert I , was killed in battle near
Soissons in
923 , is given the title
Duke of the Franks and becomes the second most powerful man in the
West Frankish Kingdom . The crowning of Louis IV follows the death of King
Rudolph I at
Auxerre earlier in the year.
Summer –
Hugh of Provence , king of
Italy , dispatches his son and co-ruler
Lothair II with a third expedition to
Rome to dislodge
Alberic II . Assault after assault is repulsed by the Roman civic
militia . At length, weakened by an
epidemic , the
Lombard nobles press on Hugh to accept a peace treaty mediated by
Odo of Cluny .
July 2 – King
Henry I ("the Fowler") dies at his
royal palace in
Memleben ,
Thuringia , after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his 23-year-old son
Otto I , who is married to
Eadgyth , a daughter of the late King
Edward the Elder . Otto is the first German king to be crowned in
Charlemagne 's former capital of
Aachen .
A
Hungarian army invades
Franconia and occupies
Fulda . They are attacked by
East Frankish forces and forced to go westwards. Otto I moves against the rebellious
Elbe Slavs.
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Archbishop
Unni of
Hamburg-Bremen visits the king of Denmark
Gorm and the king of the
Swedes
Ring before he dies in
Birka .
England
Africa
Arabian Empire
China
By topic
Religion
Births
Deaths
February 13 –
Xiao Wen , empress of the
Liao Dynasty
July 2 –
Henry the Fowler , king of the
East Frankish Kingdom
July 5 –
Xu Ji , official and chancellor of
Former Shu
September 17 –
Unni , archbishop of
Hamburg-Bremen
September 27 –
Gyeon Hwon , king of
Hubaekje (b.
867 )
December 25 –
Zhang Jingda , general of
Later Tang
Abu Bakr ibn Mujāhid , Muslim
canonical reader and scholar
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari , Muslim
Shafi'i scholar (b.
874 )
Al-Muntakhab al-Hasan , ruler of the
Rassid Dynasty
Andrew of Constantinople , Byzantine
saint
Gagik I of Vaspurakan , Armenian king (or
943 )
Ibn al-Mughallis , Muslim theologian and
jurist
Murchadh mac Sochlachan , king of
Uí Maine (
Ireland )
Rudolph I , king of the
West Frankish Kingdom
Dandi Mahadevi , Indian queen regnant
References