921
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 921 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 921 CMXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1674 |
| Armenian calendar | 370 ԹՎ ՅՀ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5671 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 842–843 |
| Bengali calendar | 328 |
| Berber calendar | 1871 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1465 |
| Burmese calendar | 283 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6429–6430 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3618 or 3411 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3619 or 3412 |
| Coptic calendar | 637–638 |
| Discordian calendar | 2087 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 913–914 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4681–4682 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 977–978 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 842–843 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4021–4022 |
| Holocene calendar | 10921 |
| Iranian calendar | 299–300 |
| Islamic calendar | 308–309 |
| Japanese calendar | Engi 21 (延喜２１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 820–821 |
| Julian calendar | 921 CMXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3254 |
| Minguo calendar | 991 before ROC 民前991年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −547 |
| Seleucid era | 1232/1233 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1463–1464 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 1047 or 666 or −106 — to — 阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1048 or 667 or −105 |
Year 921 (CMXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- March – Battle of Pegae: Bulgarian forces under kavhan (first minister) Theodore Sigritsa defeat the Byzantine army at the outskirts of Constantinople. After the battle the Bulgarians burn the palaces in Pegae ("the Spring") and devastate the area north of the Golden Horn.
Europe
- Summer – King Henry I (the Fowler) defeats his rival Arnulf I (the Bad), duke of Bavaria, in two campaigns. Arnulf is besieged at Regensburg and forced to accept peace negotiations, recognising Henry as sole sovereign of the East Frankish Kingdom (Germany).
- Landulf I, prince of Benevento, supports an anti-Greek Apulian rebellion, ravaging several Byzantine strongpoints as far as Ascoli. The Apulian nobility, professing loyalty to the Byzantine Empire, appoints Landulf as stratego of the Theme of Longobardia.
- September 15 – Ludmila, Bohemian duchess and widow of Bořivoj I, is murdered by her daughter-in-law Drahomíra at Tetín (modern Czech Republic). Ludmila will be canonised and become the patron saint of the Orthodox and the Catholic Church.
- November 7 – Treaty of Bonn: King Charles III (the Simple) and Henry I sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (amicitia) at a ceremony aboard a ship in the middle of the Rhine, recognising the border between their two Frankish kingdoms.[1]
- A Hungarian mercenary force led by Dursac and Bogát defeats an army of insurgents, who plans to overthrow their ally, Emperor Berengar I, at Brescia. He appoints Giselbert I as count palatine of Bergamo (Northern Italy).
Arabian Empire
- June 21 – A diplomatic delegation is sent from Baghdad to establish trade routes between the Abbasid Caliphate towards Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan). Ahmad ibn Fadlan, an Arab diplomat and traveller, makes contact with Almış, the İltäbär (vassal-king under the Khazars) of Volga Bulgaria, on behalf of Caliph al-Muqtadir.[2]
- Battle of Sevan: Sajid forces under Yusuf Beshir invade Armenia and besiege King Ashot II near Lake Sevan. After gathering a small force he attacks Beshir's camps and drives the enemy out of the country. Ashot starts a counter-offensive to rebuild the ruined cities and fortresses.
Africa
- The Fatimid Caliphate crushes Idrisid forces in battle, capturing the cities of Tlemcen and Fez.[3]
- The Fatimid Caliphate creates a new capital in Ifriqiya, al-Mahdiya on the Tunisian coast.[4]
China
- The Later Liang Dynasty reports that all "barbarian" tribes have been pacified by the Khitan Empire.
Births
- February 21 – Abe no Seimei, Japanese astrologer (d. 1005)
- October 9 – Li Chun'an, Chinese merchant (d. 999)
- October 27 – Chai Rong, emperor of Later Zhou (d. 959)
- Edmund I (the Magnificent), king of England (d. 946)
- Ja'far ibn al-Furat, Ikhshidid and Fatimid vizier (d. 1001)
- Louis IV, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (or 920)
- Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, Japanese nobleman (d. 991)
- Shaykh Syed Mir Mirak Andrabi, Muslim Sufi (d. 990)
Deaths
- February 13 – Vratislaus I, duke of Bohemia
- September 15 – Ludmila, Bohemian duchess
- Alexios Mosele, Byzantine admiral
- Elvira Menéndez, queen of Galicia and León
- Harusindan, ruler of the Gilites (Iran)
- Lili ibn al-Nu'man, ruler of the Gilites
- Liu Xun, general of Later Liang (b. 858)
- Ragnall ua Ímair, Viking king of Northumbria
- Richard, duke of Burgundy (b. 858)
- Wang Rong, Chinese warlord (b. 877)
References
- ^ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 241. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
- ^ Knight, Judson. Ahmad ibn Fadlan: An Arab Among the Vikings of Russia. Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 2: 700 to 1449. Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 32–34. Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 28.
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 38.