Year 905 (CMV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 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 |
Events
editBy place
editEurope
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
editReligion
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.