922

Year 922 (CMXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

922 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	922 CMXXII
Ab urbe condita	1675
Armenian calendar	371 ԹՎ ՅՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	5672
Balinese saka calendar	843–844
Bengali calendar	328–329
Berber calendar	1872
Buddhist calendar	1466
Burmese calendar	284
Byzantine calendar	6430–6431
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3619 or 3412     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3620 or 3413
Coptic calendar	638–639
Discordian calendar	2088
Ethiopian calendar	914–915
Hebrew calendar	4682–4683
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	978–979
- Shaka Samvat	843–844
- Kali Yuga	4022–4023
Holocene calendar	10922
Iranian calendar	300–301
Islamic calendar	309–310
Japanese calendar	Engi 22 (延喜２２年)
Javanese calendar	821–822
Julian calendar	922 CMXXII
Korean calendar	3255
Minguo calendar	990 before ROC 民前990年
Nanakshahi calendar	−546
Seleucid era	1233/1234 AG
Thai solar calendar	1464–1465
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1048 or 667 or −105     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 1049 or 668 or −104

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Summer – Battle of Constantinople: Emperor Romanos I sends Byzantine troops to repel another Bulgarian raid at the outskirts of Constantinople. The Byzantines storm the Bulgarian camp, but are defeated when they are confronted by the main Bulgarian forces. Having won the battle, the Bulgarians lack the maritime power to conduct a successful siege of Constantinople.^[1]

Europe

• Summer – The West Frankish nobles revolt and depose King Charles III (the Simple) after a 24-year reign. He seeks refuge in Lotharingia and is replaced by Robert I, a brother of the late King Odo, who is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom in the cathedral at Rheims.^[2]
• Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, leads a rebellion with the support of the Italian nobles against King Berengar I. He crosses the Alps into Burgundy and invites Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy to invade Italy. Berengar flees again to Verona and Rudolph is crowned King of Italy at Pavia.^[3]

By topic

Religion

• March 26 – Mansur al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic writer, is sentenced to death for heresy after a long trial at Baghdad. Having supported reform in the Abbasid Caliphate, he has been seen as a rabble-rouser, and is flogged, mutilated and executed (by beheading).

Births

• Hedwig of Nordgau, countess of Luxemburg (approximate date)
• Ibn Abi Zayd, Muslim imam and scholar (d. 996)
• Ki no Tokibumi, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 996)
• Sigfried, founder of Luxemburg (approximate date)
• Wang Pu, Chinese chancellor and writer (d. 982)

Deaths

• February 20 – Theodora, Byzantine empress
• March 26 – Mansur al-Hallaj, Persian mystic writer
• May 23 – Li Sizhao, Chinese general and governor
• Æthelweard, son of Alfred the Great of England (or 920)
• Al-Nayrizi, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 865)
• Fortún Garcés ("the Monk"), king of Pamplona
• Galindo II Aznárez, count of Aragon (Spain)
• Li Cunjin, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 857)
• Li Cunzhang, general of the Tang dynasty
• Lucídio Vimaranes, count of Portugal
• Ma Chuo, general and official of Wuyue (or 923)
• Wang Chuzhi, Chinese warlord (b. 862)
• Zhang Chengye, Chinese eunuch official (b. 846)
• Zhang Chujin, Chinese governor (jiedushi)