918

Year 918 (CMXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
918 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar918
CMXVIII
Ab urbe condita1671
Armenian calendar367
ԹՎ ՅԿԷ
Assyrian calendar5668
Balinese saka calendar839–840
Bengali calendar325
Berber calendar1868
Buddhist calendar1462
Burmese calendar280
Byzantine calendar6426–6427
Chinese calendar丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
3614 or 3554
     to 
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
3615 or 3555
Coptic calendar634–635
Discordian calendar2084
Ethiopian calendar910–911
Hebrew calendar4678–4679
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat974–975
 - Shaka Samvat839–840
 - Kali Yuga4018–4019
Holocene calendar10918
Iranian calendar296–297
Islamic calendar305–306
Japanese calendarEngi 18
(延喜18年)
Javanese calendar817–818
Julian calendar918
CMXVIII
Korean calendar3251
Minguo calendar994 before ROC
民前994年
Nanakshahi calendar−550
Seleucid era1229/1230 AG
Thai solar calendar1460–1461
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1044 or 663 or −109
     to 
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1045 or 664 or −108
Lady Æthelflæd of Mercia

Events

Europe

  • December 23 King Conrad I, injured at one of his battles with Arnulf I (the Bad), dies at his residence in Weilburg Castle after a 7-year reign. On his deathbed Conrad persuades his younger brother Eberhard III to offer the East Frankish crown to Henry the Fowler, the duke of Saxony. Conrad is buried in Fulda Cathedral (also the burial place of Boniface) in Germany.

Britain

  • Battle of Corbridge: High-Reeve Ealdred I persuades King Constantine II of Scotland to help him reclaim his position in Bernicia. They mount an invasion of his now Norse controlled lands. The Vikings under Ragnall ua Ímair (or Rægnald) defeat the Scots and their allies at Corbridge (Northern Northumbria), but take heavy casualties themselves.
  • Summer Lady Æthelflæd of Mercia begins to intrigue with disaffected factions within the Norse Kingdom of York (also referred to as Jórvik). Mercian troops ravage the local countryside and peacefully overrun the fortress of Leicester (belonging to the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw), while her brother, King Edward the Elder, takes Stamford.
  • June 12 Æthelflæd dies at Tamworth while campaigning against the Vikings. She is buried with her husband Æthelred in St. Oswald's Priory at Gloucester. Æthelflæd is succeeded by her only daughter Ælfwynn.
  • Kings Idwal Foel of Gwynedd and Hywel ap Cadell, and Prince Clydog of Deheubarth (Wales) submit to the overlordship of Edward the Elder. The Vikings raid Anglesey.

Asia

  • July 25 Wang Kon, a Korean general, overthrows the government of the short-lived state Ho Goguryeo and ascends the throne at Cheorwon. He founds the Goryeo Dynasty and makes Song'ak his capital.
  • Emperor Taizu of the Khitan Empire occupies a newly walled city called Shangjing (modern-day Inner Mongolia), meaning Supreme Capital. It becomes the residence of the Chinese Liao Dynasty.

Births

Deaths

  • January 21 Liu Zhijun, Chinese general
  • June 12 Æthelflæd, lady of Mercia (b. c.870)[1]
  • July 6 William I, duke of Aquitaine (b. 875)
  • September 10 Baldwin II, Frankish margrave
  • October 1 Zhou, empress of Former Shu
  • December 23 Conrad I, Frankish king
  • Gung Ye, king of Hu Goguryeo (Korea)
  • Husayn ibn Hamdan, Abbasid general
  • Lady Ren Neiming, Chinese noblewoman (b. 865)
  • Miyoshi Kiyotsura, Japanese scholar (b. 847)
  • Ottir (the Black), Norse Viking chieftain
  • Tan Quanbo, Chinese warlord (approximate date)
  • Wang Jian, emperor of Former Shu (b. 847)
  • Xu Zhixun, Chinese governor and regent
  • Zhu Jin, Chinese warlord (b. 867)

References

  1. Hartley, Cathy (2003). A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Psychology Press. pp. 7–8. ISBN 9781857432282.
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