923
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| Millennium |
| 1st millennium |
| Centuries |
| Decades |
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| 923 by topic |
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| Leaders |
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| Categories |
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| Gregorian calendar | 923 CMXXIII |
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| Ab urbe condita | 1676 |
| Armenian calendar | 372 ԹՎ ՅՀԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5673 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 844–845 |
| Bengali calendar | 329–330 |
| Berber calendar | 1873 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1467 |
| Burmese calendar | 285 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6431–6432 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3620 or 3413 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3621 or 3414 |
| Coptic calendar | 639–640 |
| Discordian calendar | 2089 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 915–916 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4683–4684 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 979–980 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 844–845 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4023–4024 |
| Holocene calendar | 10923 |
| Iranian calendar | 301–302 |
| Islamic calendar | 310–311 |
| Japanese calendar | Engi 23 / Enchō 1 (延長元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 822–823 |
| Julian calendar | 923 CMXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3256 |
| Minguo calendar | 989 before ROC 民前989年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −545 |
| Seleucid era | 1234/1235 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1465–1466 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 1049 or 668 or −104 — to — ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 1050 or 669 or −103 |
Year 923 (CMXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- June 15 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I is killed; the Frankish army, led by Charles the Simple, is defeated and routed near Soissons. Charles is captured and imprisoned at Péronne. The nobles elect Robert's son-in-law Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, as king of the West Frankish Kingdom (until 936).[1]
- July 29 – Battle of Fiorenzuola: Lombard forces led by King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the deposed Emperor Berengar I at Firenzuola (Tuscany). A pact is reached between Rudolph and Berengar, who abdicates the imperial throne and cedes sovereignty over the rest of Italy.[2]
Asia
Births
- September 7 – Suzaku, emperor of Japan (d. 952)
- Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Muslim intellectual (d. 1023)
- Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, Muslim scholar (approximate date)
- Eadred (or Edred), king of England (d. 955)
- Fujiwara no Nakafumi, Japanese waka poet (d. 992)
- Jeongjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 949)
- Liu Honggao, Chinese chancellor (d. 943)
Deaths
- June 15 – Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (b. 860)
- August 2 – Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (or 914)
- August 27 – Ageltrude, queen of Italy and Holy Roman Empress
- October 8 – Pilgrim I, archbishop of Salzburg
- November 20
- Jing Xiang, Chinese strategist
- Li Zhen, official of Later Liang
- Abu Bakr al-Khallal, Muslim scholar and jurist (b. 848)
- Adarnase IV, prince of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia)
- Badr al-Hammami (the Elder), Abbasid general
- Gurgen I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
- Harshavarman I, king of Angkor (Cambodia)
- Ibn Khuzaymah, Muslim hadith and scholar (b. 837)
- Ma Chuo, general and official of Wuyue (or 922)
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Persian scholar (b. 839)
- Reccared, Galician clergyman (b. 885)
- Ricwin (or Ricuin), Frankish nobleman
- Walter (or Vaulter), archbishop of Sens
- Wang Yanzhang, general of Later Liang (b. 863)
- Zhao Yan, military prefect and official of Later Liang
- Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (b. 888)
References
- ↑ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 379. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
- ↑ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 349. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
- ↑ Halm, Heinz (1991). Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden [The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. p. 226. ISBN 978-3-406-35497-7.