922

Year 922 (CMXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
922 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar922
CMXXII
Ab urbe condita1675
Armenian calendar371
ԹՎ ՅՀԱ
Assyrian calendar5672
Balinese saka calendar843–844
Bengali calendar329
Berber calendar1872
Buddhist calendar1466
Burmese calendar284
Byzantine calendar6430–6431
Chinese calendar辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
3618 or 3558
     to 
壬午年 (Water Horse)
3619 or 3559
Coptic calendar638–639
Discordian calendar2088
Ethiopian calendar914–915
Hebrew calendar4682–4683
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat978–979
 - Shaka Samvat843–844
 - Kali Yuga4022–4023
Holocene calendar10922
Iranian calendar300–301
Islamic calendar309–310
Japanese calendarEngi 22
(延喜22年)
Javanese calendar821–822
Julian calendar922
CMXXII
Korean calendar3255
Minguo calendar990 before ROC
民前990年
Nanakshahi calendar−546
Seleucid era1233/1234 AG
Thai solar calendar1464–1465
Tibetan calendar阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1048 or 667 or −105
     to 
阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1049 or 668 or −104

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Summer Battle of Constantinople: Emperor Romanos I sends Byzantine troops to repel another Bulgarian raid at the outskirts of Constantinople. The Byzantines storm the Bulgarian camp, but are defeated when they are confronted by the main Bulgarian forces. Having won the battle, the Bulgarians lack the maritime power to conduct a successful siege of Constantinople.[1]

Europe

  • Summer The West Frankish nobles revolt and depose King Charles III (the Simple) after a 24-year reign. He seeks refuge in Lotharingia and is replaced by Robert I, a brother of the late King Odo, who is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom in the cathedral at Rheims.[2]
  • Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, leads a rebellion with the support of the Italian nobles against King Berengar I. He crosses the Alps into Burgundy and invites Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy to invade Italy. Berengar flees again to Verona and Rudolph is crowned King of Italy at Pavia.[3]

Religion

Births

  • Hedwig of Nordgau, countess of Luxemburg (approximate date)
  • Ibn Abi Zayd, Muslim imam and scholar (d. 996)
  • Ki no Tokibumi, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 996)
  • Sigfried, founder of Luxemburg (approximate date)
  • Wang Pu, Chinese chancellor and writer (d. 982)

Deaths

  • February 20 Theodora, Byzantine empress
  • March 26 Mansur al-Hallaj, Persian mystic writer
  • May 23 Li Sizhao, Chinese general and governor
  • Æthelweard, son of Alfred the Great (or 920)
  • Al-Nayrizi, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 865)
  • Fortún Garcés (the Monk), king of Pamplona
  • Galindo II Aznárez, count of Aragon (Spain)
  • Li Cunjin, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 857)
  • Li Cunzhang, general of the Tang Dynasty
  • Lucídio Vimaranes, count of Portugal
  • Ma Chuo, general and official of Wuyue (or 923)
  • Wang Chuzhi, Chinese warlord (b. 862)
  • Zhang Chengye, Chinese eunuch official (b. 846)
  • Zhang Chujin, Chinese governor (jiedushi)

References

  1. "Synopsis of Histories by John Skylitzes" in GIBI, vol. VI, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, p. 252
  2. Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 379. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  3. Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 340. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
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