909

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

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
909 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar909
CMIX
Ab urbe condita1662
Armenian calendar358
ԹՎ ՅԾԸ
Assyrian calendar5659
Balinese saka calendar830–831
Bengali calendar316
Berber calendar1859
Buddhist calendar1453
Burmese calendar271
Byzantine calendar6417–6418
Chinese calendar戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3605 or 3545
     to 
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3606 or 3546
Coptic calendar625–626
Discordian calendar2075
Ethiopian calendar901–902
Hebrew calendar4669–4670
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat965–966
 - Shaka Samvat830–831
 - Kali Yuga4009–4010
Holocene calendar10909
Iranian calendar287–288
Islamic calendar296–297
Japanese calendarEngi 9
(延喜9年)
Javanese calendar808–809
Julian calendar909
CMIX
Korean calendar3242
Minguo calendar1003 before ROC
民前1003年
Nanakshahi calendar−559
Seleucid era1220/1221 AG
Thai solar calendar1451–1452
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.

Events

Britain

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.
  • Battle of Jisu - the warlord brothers Liu Shouguang and Liu Shouwen fight with Liu Shouguang emerging victorious

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.

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)
  • December 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

References

  1. Heighway, Carolyn (2001). "Gloucester and the new minister of St Oswald". In Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.). Edward the Elder 899-924. Routledge. p. 108.
  2. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, p. 68. Penguin Books: ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
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