905
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Gregorian calendar | 905 CMV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1658 |
| Armenian calendar | 354 ԹՎ ՅԾԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5655 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 826–827 |
| Bengali calendar | 312 |
| Berber calendar | 1855 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1449 |
| Burmese calendar | 267 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6413–6414 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3602 or 3395 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3603 or 3396 |
| Coptic calendar | 621–622 |
| Discordian calendar | 2071 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 897–898 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4665–4666 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 961–962 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 826–827 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4005–4006 |
| Holocene calendar | 10905 |
| Iranian calendar | 283–284 |
| Islamic calendar | 292–293 |
| Japanese calendar | Engi 5 (延喜５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 804–805 |
| Julian calendar | 905 CMV |
| Korean calendar | 3238 |
| Minguo calendar | 1007 before ROC 民前1007年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −563 |
| Seleucid era | 1216/1217 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1447–1448 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1031 or 650 or −122 — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1032 or 651 or −121 |
Year 905 (CMV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]By place
[edit]Europe
[edit]- Spring – King Berengar I of Italy arranges a truce with the Hungarians, on payment of a tribute. Grand Prince Árpád withdraws from Italy, and begins raiding in Bavaria.
- Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, launches another attempt to invade Italy. A Frankish expeditionary force, led by Adalbert I of Ivrea, captures Pavia, and Berengar I retires to Verona.
- July 21 – Berengar I and a hired Hungarian army defeat the Frankish force at Verona. They take Louis III as prisoner and Berengar blinds him for breaking his oath.
- Louis III returns to Provence. Unable to govern properly, he relinquishes the government of Lower Burgundy to his cousin Hugh, Count of Arles.[1]
- Sancho I succeeds Fortún I as King of Pamplona, and creates a Basque kingdom centered in Navarre (modern-day Spain).
Britain
[edit]- Cadell ap Rhodri, king of Seisyllwg (Wales), makes his 25-year-old son Hywel ap Cadell ruler of Dyfed, having conquered that territory. Rhodri ap Hyfaidd, nominally king of Dyfed, is caught and executed, at Arwystli.
- Norse settlers under the Viking warlord Ingimundr, revolt against the Mercians and try to capture the city of Chester. They are beaten off.
Arabian Empire
[edit]- Summer – Caliph Al-Muktafi sends an Abbasid army (10,000 men) led by Muhammad ibn Sulayman to re-establish control over Syria and Egypt. The campaign is supported from the sea by a fleet from the frontier districts of Cilicia under Damian of Tarsus. He leads his ships up the Nile River, raids the coast, and intercepts the supplies for the Tulunids.[2]
- Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer, is appointed governor of the provinces of Damascus and Jordan. He is sent to confront a pro-Tulunid rebellion under Muhammad ibn Ali al-Khalanji. The latter manages to capture Fustat and proclaims the restoration of the Tulunids, while the local Abbasid commander withdraws to Alexandria.[3][4]
Asia
[edit]- China loses control over Annam (Northern Vietnam). The village notable Khuc Thua Du leads a rebellion against the Tang Dynasty. The Chinese garrison at Tong Binh (modern Hanoi) is destroyed. Khuc Thua Du declares Annam autonomous.
- Abaoji, a Khitan tribal leader, leads 70,000 cavalry into Shanxi (Northern China) to create a 'brotherhood' with Li Keyong, a Shatuo governor (jiedushi) of the Tang Dynasty.
- Emperor Daigo of Japan orders the selection of four court poets, led by Ki no Tsurayuki, to compile the Kokin Wakashū, an early anthology of Waka poetry.
By topic
[edit]Religion
[edit]- Naum of Preslav, a Bulgarian missionary, founds a monastery on the shores of Lake Ohrid (modern-day North Macedonia), which later receives his name.
Births
[edit]- Abu al-Misk Kafur, Muslim vizier (d. 968)
- Al-Mustakfi, Abbasid caliph (d. 949)
- Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (d. 959)
- Fulk II, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
- Godfrey, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
Deaths
[edit]- March 17 – Li Yu, Prince of De, prince of the Tang Dynasty
- July 5
- Du Hong, Chinese warlord
- Gai Yu, Chinese warlord
- Pei Zhi, Chinese chancellor
- Tribhuvana Mahadevi III, Indian Queen Regnant
- Rhodri ap Hyfaidd, king of Dyfed
- Yahya ibn al-Qasim, Idrisid emir of Morocco[5]
- Yang Xingmi, Chinese governor (b. 852)
References
[edit]- ^ Bradbury, Jim (2007). The Capetians: Kings of France, 987-1132. Continuum. p. 63.
- ^ Rosenthal, Franz, ed. (1985). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 146, 151. ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
- ^ Rosenthal, Franz, ed. (1985). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
- ^ Gil, Moshe (1997) [1983]. A History of Palestine, 634–1099. Translated by Ethel Broido. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59984-9.
- ^ Eustache, D. (1971). "Idrīsids". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 1035–1037. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3495. OCLC 495469525.