By date January – June •
January 5 – Gabellus becomes the first abbot of the monsastery of
San Martín de Albelda in the Spanish kingdom of
Navarre. •
January – Hashim ibn Muhammad becomes the new ruler of the
Banu Tujib, an Arab state in Spain, upon the death of his father, Muhammad al-Anqar al-Tujibi. •
May 15 –
Nicholas I Mystikos, twice the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and having reigned a second time since
912, dies at the age of 73. •
May 23 – At
Luoyang,
Zhao Guangyin, the
Grand Chancellor (equivalent to a Prime Minister) of the Emperor
Li Cunxu of
Later Tang dynasty
China, dies. Zhao's duties are assumed by Li Cunxu's son, Prince
Li Siyuan. •
June 29 —
Stephen II becomes the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, succeeding Nicholas I.
July – December •
July 4 — At the age of 12,
Shabbethai Donnolo, who will become one of the most prominent physicians in Italy and the doctor to the Byzantine court, is kidnapped by Arab slavers as a
Fatimid expeditionary force, led by Jafar ibn Obeid, lands in
Abruzzo in southern Italy and overruns
Apulia and the city of
Otranto. After defeating the Byzantine
garrisons, the Arabs lay
siege to the castle of
Oria and destroy it, killing the defenders and
taking the women and children as slaves back to
North Africa. Donnolo's family pays a ransom and the Fatimid Amir Abu Ahmad Ja'far ibn 'Ubaid sets him free. •
August — In Spain,
Fruela II,
King of León and
King of Galicia, dies and is temporarily succeeded by his son,
Alfonso Fróilaz. •
September 4 — The coronation of
Æthelstan as
King of the Anglo-Saxons (comprising the united kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia) takes place on the island of Britain at
Kingston upon Thames. •
September — The Chamberlain Ja'far ibn Ubayd of the
Fatimid Caliphate returns to the Fatimid capital of
Mahdiya (now in
Tunisia) after a successful 17-month campaign to pillage the Byzantine-ruled island of
Sicily. •
October — In Byzantium,
John Mystikos, chief minister (
paradynasteuon), is deposed by the Emperor Romanos I, flogged, and sent into
exile in a monastery. He is replaced by the chamberlain (
protovestiarios)
Theophanes, who becomes the closest adviser of Emperor
Romanos I. At this time the
Byzantine Empire has been embroiled in a
protracted and disastrous war with Tsar
Simeon I of Bulgaria. •
November — In
Baghdad (now in Iraq),
Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Khaqani is dismissed from his position as the
Grand Vizier of the
Abbasid Caliphate upon the insistence of the Abassid commander
Mu'nis al-Muzaffar. •
December 10 — In
Pamplona in Spain,
Jimeno II becomes the new
King of Navarre in Spain upon the death of his brother,
King Sancho I. •
December 15 — At
Chengdu, capital of the
Former Shu dynasty state in China, the
Later Tang dynasty generals Li Jiji and Guo Chongtao accept the surrender of the surviving Shu official, Li Yan, representative of the Shu Emperor
Wang Zongyan. •
Alberic I, duke of
Spoleto, attempts to seize
Rome on his own account. Pope
John X organizes an uprising and expels him. Alberic flees to
Orte, where he sends out messengers calling on the
Magyars for assistance. But a mob in Orte, informed by papal agents, rises up and murders Alberic (approximate date). • King
Rudolph II of Burgundy (who also rules
Italy) and his father-in-law,
Burchard II of
Swabia, lead a Burgundian expeditionary force over the
Great St. Bernard Pass to confront
Hugh of Provence. They head to the city of
Ivrea where Rudolph's forces begin a
civil war against Lombard
partisans. •
Tomislav, duke of the Croatian duchies of
Pannonia and
Dalmatia, is crowned as king of
Croatia. He forges an alliance with the Byzantines during the struggle with the
Bulgarian Empire (approximate date).
Asia • Winter –
Former Shu, one of the
Ten Kingdoms in
China, is invaded by
Later Tang forces of Emperor
Zhuang Zong, who incorporates the kingdom into his domains. • A visiting
Uyghur delegation spurs the development of
Khitan small script, based on
alphabetic principles (approximate date).
By topic Religion •
Ha-Mim proclaims himself a
prophet and a messenger of
Islam, among the
Ghomara Berbers near the city of
Tétouan (modern
Morocco). == Births ==