904
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This article is about the year 904.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 870s 880s 890s – 900s – 910s 920s 930s |
| Years: | 901 902 903 – 904 – 905 906 907 |
| 904 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 904 CMIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1657 |
| Armenian calendar | 353 ԹՎ ՅԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5654 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -940–-939 |
| Bengali calendar | 311 |
| Berber calendar | 1854 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1448 |
| Burmese calendar | 266 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6412–6413 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十二月十一日 (3540/3600-12-11) — to —
甲子年十一月廿二日(3541/3601-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 620–621 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 896–897 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4664–4665 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 960–961 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 826–827 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4005–4006 |
| Holocene calendar | 10904 |
| Iranian calendar | 282–283 |
| Islamic calendar | 291–292 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3237 |
| Minguo calendar | 1008 before ROC 民前1008年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1447 |
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Year 904 (CMIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- The Byzantines under Andronikos Doukas defeat the Arabs near Germanikeia
- Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty China and the largest city in the ancient world, is destroyed.
- The Abbasids invade the Tulunid emirate of Egypt.
[edit] Europe
- July 29 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
- In Portugal, for the third time in less than 30 years, the Christians take control of Coimbra, this time for almost a century.[1]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- January 29 – Pope Sergius III succeeds Pope Leo V as the 119th pope; he begins the era of the Pornocracy.
[edit] Births
- June 30 – Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou
- Ælfweard of Wessex, second son of Edward the Elder
[edit] Deaths
- January – Christopher the antipope
- Zhaozong, 19th emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- Erenfried I of Maasgau, Count of Bliesgau, Keldachgau and Bonngau and Count of Charmois
- Du Xunhe, Chinese poet
- Llywarch ap Hyfaidd. King of Dyfed, Wales
- Ki no Tomonori, early Heian waka poet
- Kurszán, partner ruler of the Magyars beside beside Árpád
- Harun of Tulunids, fourth Emir of the Tulunids
- Yahya ibn Al-Qassim, eighth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
- Zhang Jun, Tang Dynasty chancellor
- Lady Zhang, wife of Zhu Quanzhong
[edit] References
- ^ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle0. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 109. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
