923

Year 923 (CMXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
923 by topic
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Religious leaders
Categories
  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
  • Disestablishments
923 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar923
CMXXIII
Ab urbe condita1676
Armenian calendar372
ԹՎ ՅՀԲ
Assyrian calendar5673
Balinese saka calendar844–845
Bengali calendar330
Berber calendar1873
Buddhist calendar1467
Burmese calendar285
Byzantine calendar6431–6432
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
3619 or 3559
    — to —
癸未年 (Water Goat)
3620 or 3560
Coptic calendar639–640
Discordian calendar2089
Ethiopian calendar915–916
Hebrew calendar4683–4684
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat979–980
 - Shaka Samvat844–845
 - Kali Yuga4023–4024
Holocene calendar10923
Iranian calendar301–302
Islamic calendar310–311
Japanese calendarEngi 23 / Enchō 1
(延長元年)
Javanese calendar822–823
Julian calendar923
CMXXIII
Korean calendar3256
Minguo calendar989 before ROC
民前989年
Nanakshahi calendar−545
Seleucid era1234/1235 AG
Thai solar calendar1465–1466
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1049 or 668 or −104
    — to —
阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1050 or 669 or −103
King Rudolph (Raoul) (c. 890–936)

Events

Europe
  • June 15 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I is killed; the Frankish army, led by Charles the Simple, is defeated and routed near Soissons. Charles is captured and imprisoned at Péronne. The nobles elect Robert's son-in-law Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, as king of the West Frankish Kingdom (until 936).[1]
  • July 29 – Battle of Fiorenzuola: Lombard forces led by King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the deposed Emperor Berengar I at Firenzuola (Tuscany). A pact is reached between Rudolph and Berengar, who abdicates the imperial throne and cedes sovereignty over the rest of Italy.[2]

Asia
  • May 13 – The Later Liang, one of the Five Dynasties in China, falls to Later Tang (founded by Li Cunxu). Li proclaims himself emperor and moves his residence back to the old Tang capital of Luoyang.
  • August 11 – The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.[3]

Births

Deaths
  • June 15 – Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (b. 860)
  • August 2 – Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (or 914)
  • August 27 – Ageltrude, queen of Italy and Holy Roman Empress
  • October 8 – Pilgrim I, archbishop of Salzburg
  • November 20
    • Jing Xiang, Chinese strategist
    • Li Zhen, official of Later Liang
  • Abu Bakr al-Khallal, Muslim scholar and jurist (b. 848)
  • Adarnase IV, prince of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia)
  • Badr al-Hammami (the Elder), Abbasid general
  • Gurgen I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
  • Harshavarman I, king of Angkor (Cambodia)
  • Ibn Khuzaymah, Muslim hadith and scholar (b. 837)
  • Ma Chuo, general and official of Wuyue (or 922)
  • Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Persian scholar (b. 839)
  • Reccared, Galician clergyman (b. 885)
  • Ricwin (or Ricuin), Frankish nobleman
  • Walter (or Vaulter), archbishop of Sens
  • Wang Yanzhang, general of Later Liang (b. 863)
  • Zhao Yan, military prefect and official of Later Liang
  • Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (b. 888)

References
  1. Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 379. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  2. Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 349. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  3. 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. 226. ISBN 3-406-35497-1.
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