908

Year 908 (CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
908 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar908
CMVIII
Ab urbe condita1661
Armenian calendar357
ԹՎ ՅԾԷ
Assyrian calendar5658
Balinese saka calendar829–830
Bengali calendar315
Berber calendar1858
Buddhist calendar1452
Burmese calendar270
Byzantine calendar6416–6417
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3604 or 3544
     to 
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
3605 or 3545
Coptic calendar624–625
Discordian calendar2074
Ethiopian calendar900–901
Hebrew calendar4668–4669
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat964–965
 - Shaka Samvat829–830
 - Kali Yuga4008–4009
Holocene calendar10908
Iranian calendar286–287
Islamic calendar295–296
Japanese calendarEngi 8
(延喜8年)
Javanese calendar807–808
Julian calendar908
CMVIII
Korean calendar3241
Minguo calendar1004 before ROC
民前1004年
Nanakshahi calendar−560
Seleucid era1219/1220 AG
Thai solar calendar1450–1451
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1034 or 653 or −119
     to 
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1035 or 654 or −118
Constantine VII is crowned as co-emperor.

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • August 3 Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats the East Frankish army under Duke Burchard, killing him, together with Duke Egino and Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg. The Hungarians devastate Thuringia and Saxony as far north as Bremen,[2] returning home with many spoils.[3][4]
  • Duke Atenulf I (the Great) of Benevento attacks the Saracens at the Garigliano River, with the assistance of Naples and Amalfi. Crossing the river, Atenulf defeats an Arab army and reaches the walls of their fortified camp. However, the sudden withdrawal of the Neapolitans renders the siege useless.

Ireland

  • September 13 Battle of Belach Mugna: In an alliance with the kings Cerball mac Muirecáin of Leinster, Cathal mac Conchobair of Connacht, and Cellach mac Cerbaill of Osraige, High King Flann Sinna defeats the forces of King Cormac mac Cuilennáin of Munster near Castledermot (County Kildare).

Arabian Empire

  • December 17 Husayn ibn Hamdan leads a revolt to depose the newly-appointed Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir in Baghdad. He installs his uncle Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz and kills vizier Al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, but fails to murder Al-Muqtadir. This leads, finally, to the coup's collapse.
  • Winter Snow falls in Baghdad. According to Arabic writings, even rivers are frozen.

China

  • March 26 Emperor Taizu (Zhu Wen) of Later Liang has the 15-year-old Li Zhu, the last Tang Dynasty emperor, poisoned. Li Zhu receives the posthumous name of Ai ("lamentable").
  • May 1 Emperor Wang Jian of Former Shu puts his adoptive son (and a potential successor) Wang Zongji (Prince of Shu) to death. He orders Wang Zongji's associates to be exiled.[5]
  • June 9 The generals Zhang Hao and Xu Wen assassinate Yang Wo (Prince of Hongnong). He is succeeded by his 11-year-old brother Yang Longyan as ruler of the Wu Kingdom.
  • June 18 Xu Wen murders Zhang Hao and takes over as Yang Longyan's regent, and sole commander of the imperial guard. He becomes de facto ruler of the Wu Kingdom.

Births

  • Al-Muttaqi, Abbasid caliph (d. 968)
  • Guo Chong, Chinese general (approximate date)
  • Ibrahim ibn Sinan, Abbasid mathematician (d. 946)
  • Kiyohara no Motosuke, Japanese nobleman (d. 990)
  • Thankmar, Frankish prince (approximate date)

Deaths

  • February 23 Li Keyong, Shatuo governor (b. 856)
  • March 25 Li Kening, Chinese general
  • March 26 Ai, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 892)
  • April 25 Zhang Wenwei, Chinese chancellor
  • May 1 Wang Zongji, Chinese prince and pretender
  • June 9 Yang Wo, emperor of Wu (b. 886)
  • June 18 Zhang Hao, Chinese general
  • August 3
    • Burchard, duke of Thuringia
    • Egino, duke of Thuringia
    • Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg
  • August 13 Al-Muktafi, Abbasid caliph
  • September 13 Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster (Ireland)
  • December 17
    • Al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier
    • Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid poet (b. 861)
  • Blaise of Amorion, Byzantine monk and missionary
  • Cléirchén mac Murchadh, king of Maigh Seóla (Ireland)
  • Denewulf, bishop of Winchester
  • Li Sijian, Chinese warlord and governor
  • Remigius of Auxerre, Frankish scholar
  • Wang Shifan, Chinese warlord (b. 874)
  • Xuefeng Yicun, Chinese Chan master (b. 822)

References

  1. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
  2. Tarján Tamás, augusztus 3. A kalandozó magyarok győzelme Eisenach mellett, Rubicon.
  3. Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991., p. 129.
  4. Chronicon Hermanni Contracti: Ex Inedito Hucusque Codice Augiensi, Unacum Eius Vita Et Continuatione A Bertholdo eius discipulo scripta. Praemittuntur Varia Anecdota. Subiicitur Chronicon Petershusanum Ineditum. 1, Typis San-Blasianis, 1790, p. CVIII, Text from: Gesta Francorum excerpta, ex originali ampliata, Latin text: "980 [...] Ungari in Saxones. Et Burchardus dux Toringorum, et Reodulfus epsicopus, Eginoque aliique quamplurimi occisi sunt devastata terra...". English translation: "908 [...] The Hungarians against the Saxons. Burchard, duke of Thuringia, bishop Rudolf, and Egino were killed with many others and [the Hungarians] devastated the land...".
  5. New History of the Five Dynasties, vol. 63.
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