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"911 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see
911 BC .
Calendar year
King
Charles III (the Simple ) (879–929)
911 (
CMXI ) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
September 24 – King
Louis IV (the Child ), the last
Carolingian ruler of the
East Frankish Kingdom , dies at
Frankfurt am Main after an 11-year reign. The East Frankish dukes elect
Conrad I at
Forchheim as the king of the East Frankish Kingdom. Charles III is elected as king of
Lotharingia . Conrad is chosen through the influence of Louis' guardian and
regent ,
Hatto I , archbishop of
Mainz .
Autumn – King
Charles III (the Simple ) and
Rollo , leader of the
Vikings , sign a peace agreement (
Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte ). In return for his homage and conversion to
Christianity , Rollo becomes a
vassal and is made
Count of Rouen ; this is the beginning of the duchy of Normandy. He divides the lands between the rivers
Epte and
Risle among his chieftains, and prevents any other Vikings sailing up the
Seine to attack the
West Frankish Kingdom .
[1]
The
Hungarians cross
Bavaria , and invade
Swabia and
Franconia . They plunder the territories from
Minfeld to
Aargau . After that, they cross the
Rhine , and attack
Burgundy for the first time.
The Fatimids begin the conquest of
Sicily , over their
Aghlabid archrivals. Fatimid Sicilian governor Ibn al-Khinzir raids the south Italian coast (approximate date).
Britain
Africa
A rebellion of the
Kutama Berbers against the
Fatimid Caliphate occurs. The Kutama tribesmen were previously the main supporters of the
Shia regime.
[2]
By topic
Religion
Births
Deaths
February 28 –
Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i , Muslim
Shia missionary
April 4 –
Liu Yin , governor of
Southern Han (b.
874 )
April 14 –
Sergius III , pope of the
Catholic Church
August 18 –
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya , first
Zaydi
Imam of Yemen (b.
859 )
[3]
Æthelred , lord of
Mercia and husband of
Æthelflæd
Burchard I , Frankish nobleman
Ibn al-Rawandi , Muslim scholar and writer (b.
827 )
Louis IV , king of the
East Frankish Kingdom (b.
893 )
Lu Yanchang , Chinese governor (
jiedushi )
Tecpancaltzin Iztaccaltzin , ruler of the
Toltec Empire
Wifred II , count of
Barcelona
References
^ John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings , p. 80. Penguin Books:
ISBN
978-0-140-51328-8 .
^ Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie, cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658–1518) . Paris: La Découverte. p. 38.
^
Madelung, W. (2004).
"al-Ḥādī Ila 'l-Ḥaḳḳ" . In
Bearman, P. J. ;
Bianquis, Th. ;
Bosworth, C. E. ;
van Donzel, E. &
Heinrichs, W. P. (eds.).
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition . Volume XII: Supplement . Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 334–335.
ISBN
978-90-04-13974-9 .