921
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This article is about the year 921.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 890s 900s 910s – 920s – 930s 940s 950s |
| Years: | 918 919 920 – 921 – 922 923 924 |
| 921 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 921 CMXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1674 |
| Armenian calendar | 370 ԹՎ ՅՀ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5671 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -923–-922 |
| Bengali calendar | 328 |
| Berber calendar | 1871 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1465 |
| Burmese calendar | 283 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6429–6430 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年十一月二十日 (3557/3617-11-20) — to —
辛巳年十一月三十日(3558/3618-11-30) |
| Coptic calendar | 637–638 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 913–914 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4681–4682 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 977–978 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 843–844 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4022–4023 |
| Holocene calendar | 10921 |
| Iranian calendar | 299–300 |
| Islamic calendar | 308–309 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3254 |
| Minguo calendar | 991 before ROC 民前991年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1464 |
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Year 921 (CMXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Africa
- Crushing defeat of the Idrisid dynasty against their Fatimid rivals. The Fatimids take Tlemcen and Fès.[1]
- The Fatimids create a new capital in Ifriqiya, Mahdiya.[2]
[edit] Asia
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan is sent from Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir.
- The Later Liang Dynasty of China reports that all "barbarian" tribes have been pacified by the Khitan.
[edit] Europe
- Henry the Fowler invades Bavaria and obtains fealty from Arnulf the Bad.
[edit] Births
- September 18 – Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou
- Edmund I of England (d. 946)
- Abe no Seimei, Japanese cosmologist (d. 1005)
- Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman
- Shaykh Syed Mir Mirak Andrabi, fifth generation of Sadaat-Andrabia in the Kashmir Valley
[edit] Deaths
- September 1 – Richard, Duke of Burgundy (b. c. 867)
- September 15 – Saint Ludmila, ruler of Bohemia
- Vratislaus I of Bohemia (b. c. 915)
- Ragnall ua Ímair, Norse-Gael king of Northumbria
