933

Year 933 (CMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
933 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar933
CMXXXIII
Ab urbe condita1686
Armenian calendar382
ԹՎ ՅՁԲ
Assyrian calendar5683
Balinese saka calendar854–855
Bengali calendar340
Berber calendar1883
Buddhist calendar1477
Burmese calendar295
Byzantine calendar6441–6442
Chinese calendar壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3629 or 3569
     to 
癸巳年 (Water Snake)
3630 or 3570
Coptic calendar649–650
Discordian calendar2099
Ethiopian calendar925–926
Hebrew calendar4693–4694
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat989–990
 - Shaka Samvat854–855
 - Kali Yuga4033–4034
Holocene calendar10933
Iranian calendar311–312
Islamic calendar320–322
Japanese calendarJōhei 3
(承平3年)
Javanese calendar832–833
Julian calendar933
CMXXXIII
Korean calendar3266
Minguo calendar979 before ROC
民前979年
Nanakshahi calendar−535
Seleucid era1244/1245 AG
Thai solar calendar1475–1476
Tibetan calendar阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1059 or 678 or −94
     to 
阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1060 or 679 or −93
King Henry I defeats the Magyars (c. 1270)

Events

Europe

  • Spring Hugh of Provence, king of Italy, launches an expedition to Rome to remove the Roman ruler (princeps) Alberic II and avenge his humiliation (see 932). It fails, however, as Roman civic militias repel the Lombard army. Hugh ravages the Italian countryside, before he withdraws to Pavia.[1]
  • March 15 Battle of Merseburg: King Henry I ("the Fowler") defeats the Magyars near Merseburg after his refusal to pay the annual tribute. During Henry's lifetime they never raid the East Frankish Kingdom again.[2]
  • William I ("Longsword"), duke of Normandy, recognizes King Rudolph as his overlord. In turn he gives William the Cotentin Peninsula and the Channel Islands.[3]

England

  • Prince Edwin, the youngest son of the late King Edward the Elder, is drowned en route to the West Frankish Kingdom and buried at Saint Bertin.

Africa

Births

  • Al-Hakim Nishapuri, Persian Sunni scholar (d. 1014)

Deaths

  • March 10 Li Renfu, Chinese warlord and governor
  • March 16 Takin al-Khazari, Abbasid governor of Egypt
  • November 21 Al-Tahawi, Arab imam and scholar (b. 853)
  • December 9 Li Congrong, prince of Later Tang
  • December 15 Li Siyuan, emperor of Later Tang (b. 867)
  • December 18 Yaonian Yanmujin, Chinese empress dowager
  • Acfred II, count of Carcassonne and Razès (France)
  • Adelolf, count of Boulogne (approximate date)
  • Alfonso IV, king of León and Galicia (Spain)
  • Du Guangting, Chinese Taoist priest and writer (b. 850)
  • Ealdred I, ruler ('king') of Bernicia (approximate date)
  • Edwin, English prince and son of Edward the Elder
  • Fujiwara no Kanesuke, Japanese nobleman (b. 877)
  • Harald Fairhair, king of Norway (approximate date)
  • Ibn Duraid, Arab poet and philologist (b. 837)
  • Mu'nis al-Muzaffar, Abbasid general
  • Shaghab, mother and de facto co-ruler of Al-Muqtadir
  • Tryphon, patriarch of Constantinople

References

  1. . Italian History - Timeline Lombard Leagues Board, p. 11.
  2. Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 543. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  3. Pierre Riché, The Carolingians: A Family who Forged Europe, trans. Michael Idomir Allen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), pp. 252–253.
  4. Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 41.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.