909

This article is about the year 909. For other uses, see 909 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	880s 890s 900s 910s 920s
Years:	906 907 908 909 910 911 912

909 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	909 CMIX
Ab urbe condita	1662
Armenian calendar	358 ԹՎ ՅԾԸ
Assyrian calendar	5659
Balinese saka calendar	830–831
Bengali calendar	316
Berber calendar	1859
Buddhist calendar	1453
Burmese calendar	271
Byzantine calendar	6417–6418
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3606 or 3399     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3607 or 3400
Coptic calendar	625–626
Discordian calendar	2075
Ethiopian calendar	901–902
Hebrew calendar	4669–4670
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	965–966
- Shaka Samvat	830–831
- Kali Yuga	4009–4010
Holocene calendar	10909
Iranian calendar	287–288
Islamic calendar	296–297
Japanese calendar	Engi 9 (延喜９年)
Javanese calendar	808–809
Julian calendar	909 CMIX
Korean calendar	3242
Minguo calendar	1003 before ROC 民前1003年
Nanakshahi calendar	−559
Seleucid era	1220/1221 AG
Thai solar calendar	1451–1452
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1035 or 654 or −118     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1036 or 655 or −117

The Fatimid Caliphate at its greatest extent.

Year 909 (CMIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Britain

• King Edward the Elder and his sister, Princess Æthelflæd of Mercia, raid Danish East Anglia and bring back the relics of St. Oswald in triumph. Æthelflæd translates them to the new minster in Gloucester, which is renamed St. Oswald's Priory in his honour.
• Edward the Elder despatches an Anglo-Saxon army to attack the Northumbrian Vikings and ravages Scandinavian York.

Africa

• March 18 – The Fatimid Dynasty founded by Shiite Muslims in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia) gains suzerainty over the Aghlabid Dynasty in North Africa. Emir Ziyadat Allah III escapes to the Near East, unable to secure any help from the Abbasid Caliphate to regain his emirate.
• The Berber Kutama tribesmen under Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah capture the cities of Kairouan and Raqqada. The capital city of the Rustamid imamate, Tihert is destroyed. The remaining Ibadi are forced into the desert.
• Winter – Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah takes up the leadership of the Fatimid state and proclaims himself Caliph Abdullah (al-Mahdi).

China

• April 27 – The Min Kingdom (modern-day Fujian province) is established by governor Wang Shenzhi (Prince of Langye), with Fuzhou (known as Changle) as its capital. Wang Shenzhi tries to attract scholars who will help to construct an efficient bureaucracy and tax system.

Mesoamerica

• The last Long Count date is inscribed on a monument at the Mayan site of Toniná (modern-day Chiapas, Mexico), marking the end of the Classic Maya Period.

By topic

Religion

• Asser, bishop of Sherborne, dies. His See is divided, there are new Bishoprics created at Wells, Crediton, Ramsbury and Sonning.

Births

• Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester (or 904)
• Ar-Radi, Abbasid caliph (d. 940)
• Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 988)
• Fujiwara no Morosuke, Japanese statesman (d. 960)
• Shen Lun, Chinese scholar-official (d. 987)

Deaths

• April 18 – Dionysius II, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch
• May 9 – Adalgar, archbishop of Bremen
• Aribo of Austria, Frankish margrave
• Asser, bishop of Sherborne (approximate date)
• Cadell ap Rhodri, king of Seisyllwg (Wales)
• Cerball mac Muirecáin, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Fujiwara no Tokihira, Japanese statesman (b. 871)
• Gerald of Aurillac, Frankish nobleman (b. 855)
• Luo Yin, Chinese statesman and poet (b. 833)
• Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri, Muslim theologian (b. 868)
• Sochlachan mac Diarmata, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
• Wighelm, bishop of Selsey