923

Year 923 (CMXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

923 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	923 CMXXIII
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	阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1049 or 668 or −104     — to — 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1050 or 669 or −103

King Rudolph (Raoul) (c. 890–936)

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

• May 13 – The Later Liang, one of the Five Dynasties in China, falls to Later Tang (founded by Li Cunxu). Li proclaims himself emperor and moves his residence back to the old Tang capital of Luoyang.
• August 11 – The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.^[3]

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)