919

Year 919 (CMXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
919 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar919
CMXIX
Ab urbe condita1672
Armenian calendar368
ԹՎ ՅԿԸ
Assyrian calendar5669
Balinese saka calendar840–841
Bengali calendar326
Berber calendar1869
Buddhist calendar1463
Burmese calendar281
Byzantine calendar6427–6428
Chinese calendar戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
3615 or 3555
     to 
己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3616 or 3556
Coptic calendar635–636
Discordian calendar2085
Ethiopian calendar911–912
Hebrew calendar4679–4680
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat975–976
 - Shaka Samvat840–841
 - Kali Yuga4019–4020
Holocene calendar10919
Iranian calendar297–298
Islamic calendar306–307
Japanese calendarEngi 19
(延喜19年)
Javanese calendar818–819
Julian calendar919
CMXIX
Korean calendar3252
Minguo calendar993 before ROC
民前993年
Nanakshahi calendar−549
Seleucid era1230/1231 AG
Thai solar calendar1461–1462
Tibetan calendar阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1045 or 664 or −108
     to 
阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1046 or 665 or −107
The East Frankish Kingdom (919–1125).
Henry the Fowler is offered the crown.

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • May 24 The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom. He recognizes the stem duchies (uniting them in a German confederation) and all their sovereign privileges. Two of the four most influential duchies, Bavaria and Swabia, do not accept his rule. Henry fortifies Magdeburg against the Magyars.
  • Summer Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria ("the Bad"), is elected as anti-king by the East-Frankish nobles in opposition to Henry I. Burchard II, duke of Swabia, submits to Henry's rule — allowing him to retain administrative control over his duchy. After an absence of nearly 15 years, the Magyars raid Bavaria and Northern Italy again, sacking the Po Valley (see Hungarian invasions of Europe).
  • September 14 Battle of Islandbridge: High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Dublin-based Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.

Britain

  • Lady Ælfwynn of the Mercians is brought to the court of her uncle, King Edward the Elder, and deprived of her authority in Mercia. Edward formally annexes the kingdom, ending independent Mercian rule.
  • Ragnall ua Ímair, a Viking chief from Ireland, takes control of the Norse Kingdom of York (also referred to as Jórvik) and the English-ruled Earldom of Northumbria. He establishes himself as king at York.[1]

Africa

  • April 5 The Fatimid Caliphate of Ifriqiya (modern-day Tunisia) launch the second Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921) in an attempt to seize Egypt from its Abbasid rulers. The expedition fails and the Fatimids will be forced to retreat.[2]
  • Following his death, Mara Takla Haymanot is succeeded by his eldest son Tatadim as ruler (negus) of the Zagwe Dynasty in Ethiopia.[3]

China

  • Battle of Langshan Jiang: The Wuyue navy (500 dragon ships) under Prince Qian Yuanguan who is preparing an invasion to attack the Wu Kingdom, defeats the naval forces of General Peng Yanzhang on the Yangtze River. Due to the use of flamethrower ships (using gunpowder to ignite petrol, like Greek fire) Qian Yuanguan manages to destroy 400 enemy ships and captures 7,000 prisoners.

Mesoamerica

  • The Ancestral Puebloans, living in the Four Corners, begin construction at Pueblo Bonito, in modern-day New Mexico's Chaco Canyon (approximate date).

Religion

Births

  • January 29 Shi Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 951)
  • García I, king of Pamplona (d. 970)
  • Li Cheng, Chinese painter (d. 967)
  • Meng Chang, emperor of Later Shu (d. 965)
  • Xu Jingqian, official and regent of Wu (d. 937)
  • Theinhko, king of the Pagan dynasty (d. 956)

Deaths

  • January 28 Zhou Dewei, Chinese general
  • August 11 Dhuka al-Rumi, Abbasid governor of Egypt[4]
  • August 28 He Gui, Chinese general (b. 858)
  • September 14 Niall Glúndub, High King of Ireland
  • December 18 Lady Wu, wife of Qian Liu (b. 858)
  • Justan III, ruler of the Justanid Dynasty (Iran)
  • Khusrau Firuz, ruler of the Justanid Dynasty
  • Mara Takla Haymanot, ruler of Ethiopia
  • Solomon III, bishop of Constance

References

  1. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, p. 68. ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
  2. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp. 38.
  3. Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 56.
  4. Halm, Heinz (1991). Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden [The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. p. 189. ISBN 3-406-35497-1.
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