| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 870s 880s 890s - 900s - 910s 920s 930s
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| Years: | 897 898 899 - 900 - 901 902 903 |
Year 900 in family history, genealogy research and other important world events.
- 900 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. (Calendar Link)
| Gregorian calendar | 900 CM
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| Ab urbe condita | 1653 |
| Armenian calendar | 349 ԹՎ ՅԽԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -944 – -943 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1444 |
| Coptic calendar | 616 – 617 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 892 – 893 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4660 – 4661 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 955 – 956 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 822 – 823 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4001 – 4002 |
| Holocene calendar | 10900 |
| Iranian calendar | 278 – 279 |
| Islamic calendar | 286 – 288 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1560 (皇紀1560年) |
| Julian calendar | 945 |
| Korean calendar | 3233 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1443 |
The Earth's Eastern Hemisphere (c. 900)
Gunnbjörn discovers Greenland (c. 900)
Events[]
By place[]
Abbasid Caliphate[]
- Spring – Forces under the Transoxianian emir Isma'il ibn Ahmad are victorious at Balkh (Northern Afghanistan) over Amr ibn al-Layth; the latter is captured and sent to Caliph Al-Mu'tadid in Baghdad.[1] The Samanid Dynasty rules over Khorasan, as well as Transoxiana.[2] A few months later, the Samanids conquer the Zaydid emirate of Tabaristan. This victory marks the beginning of the dispersion of the local Shi'ites by the new Sunni power.
- Arab–Byzantine wars: Emperor Leo VI ("the Wise") begins an offensive against the Abbasid army in Cilicia, Upper Mesopotamia and Armenia. He also continues the war against the Muslims in Sicily and southern Italy.[3]
- The future founder of the Fatimid Caliphate, Abdallah al-Mahdi and his family migrate to North Africa. They claim to be descendants of Fatimah, the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
- The Qarmatians of al-Bahrayn, under Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi, score a major victory over the Abbasid army led by al-Abbas ibn Amr al-Ghanawi.
Asia[]
- April 21 – Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon by the Lakan (ruler) of Tondo, as represented by Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pila, which released them of all their debts as inscribed in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (Philippines).
- Maravarman Rajasimha II, king of Pandya, begins to rule. He is constantly at war with Chola (his overlord) and becomes the last ruler of the first Pandyan Empire (India).[4]
- December 1 – Emperor Zhao Zong is deposed and forced by a group of Tang eunuchs led by Liu Jishu to abdicate the throne to his son, Crown Prince Li Yu (until 901).
Europe[]
- Spring – Atenulf I, Lombard prince of Capua, conquers the Duchy of Benevento. He deposes Duke Radelchis II and unites the two southern Lombard duchies in Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy). The Byzantines offer a strategic alliance to Atenulf who directs a campaign against the Saracens. They have establish themselves on the banks of the Garigliano River. From here, Arab warbands launch frequent raids in Campania.[5]
- February 4 – The 7-year-old Louis IV ("the Child") is, at an assembly at Forchheim (Bavaria), proclaimed king of the East Frankish Kingdom. Because of his young age, the reins of government are entirely in the hands of others – the Frankish nobles and bishops. The most influential of Louis' councillors are Hatto I, archbishop of Mainz, and Solomon III, bishop of Constance.[6]
- June 8 – Edward the Elder (son of Alfred the Great) is crowned king of England at Kingston upon Thames.[7]
- June 17 – Baldwin II of Flanders (c865-918) has Fulk the Venerable, bishop of Reims, assassinated.[8]
- June 29 – The Venetians repel the Magyar raiders at Rialto.[9]
- Summer – After the death of his wife Zoe Zaoutzaina, the Byzantine emperor Leo VI marries Eudokia Baïana.[10]
- August – Abdallah, son of the Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II, represses a revolt of his Muslim subjects, and then initiates a campaign against the last Byzantine strongholds in Sicily.[3]
- August 13 – Zwentibold, king of Lotharingia, is killed in battle on the Meuse River, while fighting against his rebellious subjects; subsequently they recognize Louis IV as their rightful suzerain - Lotharingia is then converted from a kingdom to a duchy.[11]
- October 12 – Following Magyars raids in Lombardy, king Louis III ("the Blind") is called to Italy by the grandees. He takes Pavia, forcing king Berengar I to flee, and replaces him as King of Italy.[12]
- King Donald II is killed after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded by his cousin Constantine II as king of Scotland;[13] he will reign for more than 40 years.
- Docibilis I of Gaeta and his Saracen mercenaries attack Capua, in vain.[14]
- After the rejection of their alliance proposal by the Bavarians, the Hungarians attack this country, occupying Pannonia and parts of Ostmark, which become part of the Hungarian state until today.
Mesoamerica[]
- The Postclassic Period: The Maya civilization that has flourished for about 650 years in upland areas of what later will be called Central America comes to an end as a result either of depleted agricultural resources or warfare between some 40 rival city-states. The great stone pyramids, ball courts and other structures at cities such as Tikal, Copán, and Palenque are abandoned and overgrown with jungle, as will eventually be the sculpture and relief carvings of the Maya, who have developed a calendar based on almost perfect astronomic measurements. Cities such as Chichen Itza, Mayapan and Uxmal in the highlands of the Yucatán Peninsula will continue to flourish.
- In Peru the Lambayeque people establish themselves over areas previously developed by the Moche (approximate date).
By topic[]
Religion[]
- February — Pope Benedict IV succeeds Pope John IX as the 117th pope.
Medicine[]
- Persian scientist, Rhazes, distinguished smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintained "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".
Births[]
- Abu Jafar Khazeni (900-971), Persian astronomer and mathematician
- Adaldag (c900-988), Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
- Berengar II of Italy (900-966), king of Italy (approximate date)
- Berthold, duke of Bavaria (approximate date)
- Conrad of Constance (c900-975), Bishop of Constance and German saint (approximate date)
- Fujiwara no Saneyori (900-970), Japanese statesman
- Gero of Cologne (c900-976), archbishop of Cologne
- Gero (c900-965), Frankish nobleman
- John of Gorze (900-974), Frankish abbot and diplomat
- Mord Fiddle (900-968), Icelandic farmer and law expert
- Nicodemus of Mammola (900-990), Italian monk
- Ramiro II of Leon, king of León (approximate date)
- Ramwold, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
- Rasso, Frankish military leader (approximate date)
- Yang Pu (900-939), emperor of Wu (d. 939)
Deaths[]
- June 17 – Fulk, archbishop of Reims
- July 8 – Qatr al-Nada, wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid[15]
- August 13 – Zwentibold, last king of Lotharingia (b. 870)
- Donald II, king of the Picts (Scotland)[16]
- Dongshan Shouchu, Chinese Zen teacher
- Eardulf, bishop of Lindisfarne (approximate date)
- Fujiwara no Takafuji, Japanese nobleman (b. 838)
- Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims, assassinated by Count Baldwin II of Flanders
- Ibn Abi Asim, Muslim Sunni scholar (b. 822)
- John IX, pope of the Catholic Church
- Lde-dpal-hkhor-btsan, Indian ruler
- Litan, Irish abbot (approximate date)
- Liu Chongwang, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- Li Zhirou, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- Merfyn ap Rhodri, king of Powys (approximate date)
- Muhammad ibn Zayd, emir of Tabaristan (Iran)
- Ono no Komachi, Japanese poet (approximate date)
- Tadg mac Conchobair, king of Connacht (Ireland)
- Wang Tuan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- Wulfhere, archbishop of York (approximate date)
People of the year 900 at Familypedia
14 people were born in 900
11 children were born to the 3 women born in 900
4 people died in 900
134 people lived in 900
Events of the year 900 at Familypedia
2 people were married in 900.
| Joined with | |
|---|---|
| Gérard I de Metz (-910) | Oda von Sachsen (?-952) |
| Oda von Sachsen (?-952) | Zwentibold (870-900)+Gérard I de Metz (-910) |
There were 0 military battles in 900.
References[]
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- ^ René Grousset (1885-1952) (1965). L'empire des steppes, Attila, Gengis-Khan, Tamerlan (4 ed.). Paris: Payot. http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/grousset_rene/empire_des_steppes/grousset_steppes.pdf.
- ^ a b Louis Bréhier (1946). Vie et mort de Byzance. Paris: Albin Michel. p. 596. http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/brehier_louis/monde_byzantin/brehier_vie_et_mort_byzance.pdf.
- ^ N. Jayapalan (2001). History of India. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. ISBN 978-81-7156-928-1. https://books.google.com/books?d=tU1yDpYlu38C&pg=PA176.
- ^ Barbara M. Kreutz Before the Normans University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996 ISBN 978-0-8122-1587-8
- ^ Jacques Flach Les Origines de l'ancienne France. Volume 4 Ayer Publishing ISBN 978-0-8337-1147-2
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- ^ Caravale, Mario (ed). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XL Di Fausto – Donadoni. Rome, 1991.
- ^ Template:The History of al-Tabari
- ^ Lynch, Michael, ed (2011). The Oxford companion to Scottish history. Oxford University Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780199693054. https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000unse_p3z9.
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