921

Year 921 (CMXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
921 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar921
CMXXI
Ab urbe condita1674
Armenian calendar370
ԹՎ ՅՀ
Assyrian calendar5671
Balinese saka calendar842–843
Bengali calendar328
Berber calendar1871
Buddhist calendar1465
Burmese calendar283
Byzantine calendar6429–6430
Chinese calendar庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3617 or 3557
     to 
辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
3618 or 3558
Coptic calendar637–638
Discordian calendar2087
Ethiopian calendar913–914
Hebrew calendar4681–4682
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat977–978
 - Shaka Samvat842–843
 - Kali Yuga4021–4022
Holocene calendar10921
Iranian calendar299–300
Islamic calendar308–309
Japanese calendarEngi 21
(延喜21年)
Javanese calendar820–821
Julian calendar921
CMXXI
Korean calendar3254
Minguo calendar991 before ROC
民前991年
Nanakshahi calendar−547
Seleucid era1232/1233 AG
Thai solar calendar1463–1464
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
Ludmila of Bohemia (c. 860–921)

Events

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.

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

China

  • The Later Liang Dynasty reports that all "barbarian" tribes have been pacified by the Khitan Empire.

Births

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

  1. Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 241. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  2. 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.
  3. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 28.
  4. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 38.
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