903

Year 903 (CMIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
903 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar903
CMIII
Ab urbe condita1656
Armenian calendar352
ԹՎ ՅԾԲ
Assyrian calendar5653
Balinese saka calendar824–825
Bengali calendar310
Berber calendar1853
Buddhist calendar1447
Burmese calendar265
Byzantine calendar6411–6412
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3599 or 3539
     to 
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3600 or 3540
Coptic calendar619–620
Discordian calendar2069
Ethiopian calendar895–896
Hebrew calendar4663–4664
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat959–960
 - Shaka Samvat824–825
 - Kali Yuga4003–4004
Holocene calendar10903
Iranian calendar281–282
Islamic calendar290–291
Japanese calendarEngi 3
(延喜3年)
Javanese calendar801–803
Julian calendar903
CMIII
Korean calendar3236
Minguo calendar1009 before ROC
民前1009年
Nanakshahi calendar−565
Seleucid era1214/1215 AG
Thai solar calendar1445–1446
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1029 or 648 or −124
     to 
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1030 or 649 or −123
King Berengar I and the monks of Casauria

Events

Europe

Britain

  • The Danish Vikings invade Anglesey after being driven out of Dublin (see 902). They fail to gain a foothold in Wales, and sail on to Chester.
  • A party of Danes under the Viking warlord Ingimundr attack the Welsh in a pitched battle at Maes Ros Meilon, perhaps near Llanfaes.

Arabian Empire

  • November 29 Battle of Hama: Abbasid forces under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeat the Qarmatians near Hama, on the banks of the Orontes River (modern Syria). The Qarmatian army is scattered and pursued by Abbasid troops; Al-Husayn ibn Zikrawayh and other Qarmatian leaders are captured.

Religion

  • July Pope Benedict IV dies after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by Leo V as the 118th pope of the Catholic Church. Leo is imprisoned and tortured by Antipope Christopher after a reign of just 1 month. Christopher makes himself the new pope of Rome.

Births

  • December 7 Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
  • Feng Yanji, chancellor of Southern Tang (d. 960)
  • Kūya, Japanese priest of Pure Land Buddhism (d. 972)
  • Li Gu, chancellor of Later Zhou (d. 960)
  • Wang Jun, chancellor of Later Zhou (or 902)

Deaths

  • March 6
    • Lu Guangqi, Chinese official and chancellor
    • Su Jian, Chinese official and chancellor
  • March 26 Sugawara no Michizane, Japanese politician and poet (b. 845)
  • June 10 Cheng Rui, Chinese warlord
  • July 27 Abdallah II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir
  • July Benedict IV, pope of the Catholic Church[1]
  • December 24 Hedwiga, duchess of Saxony
  • December 30 Tian Jun, Chinese warlord (b. 858)
  • Adalhard of Babenberg, Frankish nobleman
  • Moses Bar-Kepha, Syriac bishop and writer
  • Théodrate of Troyes, Frankish queen (b. 868)
  • Zhu Yanshou, Chinese governor (b. 870)

References

  1. "Benedict IV | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
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