929

This article is about the year 929. For the number, see 900 (number)#920s. For the car, see Mazda Luce. For the Halsey song, see Manic (Halsey album).

Year 929 (CMXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

929 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	929 CMXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1682
Armenian calendar	378 ԹՎ ՅՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	5679
Balinese saka calendar	850–851
Bengali calendar	335–336
Berber calendar	1879
Buddhist calendar	1473
Burmese calendar	291
Byzantine calendar	6437–6438
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3626 or 3419     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3627 or 3420
Coptic calendar	645–646
Discordian calendar	2095
Ethiopian calendar	921–922
Hebrew calendar	4689–4690
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	985–986
- Shaka Samvat	850–851
- Kali Yuga	4029–4030
Holocene calendar	10929
Iranian calendar	307–308
Islamic calendar	316–317
Japanese calendar	Enchō 7 (延長７年)
Javanese calendar	828–829
Julian calendar	929 CMXXIX
Korean calendar	3262
Minguo calendar	983 before ROC 民前983年
Nanakshahi calendar	−539
Seleucid era	1240/1241 AG
Thai solar calendar	1471–1472
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 1055 or 674 or −98     — to — ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 1056 or 675 or −97

Events

By place

Europe

• January 16 – Emir Abd al-Rahman III of Córdoba, Spain, proclaims himself caliph and creates the Caliphate of Córdoba. He breaks his allegiance to, and ties with, the Fatimid and Abbasid caliphs.^[1]
• February 3 – Guy, Margrave of Tuscany, second husband (third lover) of the Roman noblewoman Marozia, dies. He is succeeded by his brother Lambert as margrave of Tuscany.
• Early 929 – Siege of Gana: German king Henry the Fowler besieges Gana with an East Frankish army and conquers the stronghold. He establishes the fort of Meissen nearby.
• Early 929 – Henry the Fowler invades Bohemia from the north and marches on Prague. Duke Arnulf I of Bavaria invades Bohemia from the south. The Bohemians capitulate.
• Summer – The Slavic-Arab leader Sabir defeats a small Byzantine fleet and seizes Termoli (in Molise, on the Adriatic coast). He returns to Africa laden with booty and slaves.
• September 4 – Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) are defeated by a Saxon army near the fortified stronghold of Lenzen (modern Germany).
• October 7 – Charles the Simple, former king of West Francia, dies in prison at Péronne, leaving Rudolph with no opposition except that of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois.

Asia

• Mpu Sindok, ruler of the Mataram Kingdom, moves his court from Central to East Java (modern Indonesia), probably after the eruption of Mount Merapi and/or invasion from Srivijaya.^[2]

By topic

Religion

• Pope Leo VI dies at Rome after a 7-month reign. He is succeeded (probably handpicked–by Marozia from the Tusculani family) by Stephen VII as the 124th pope of the Catholic Church.

Births

• September 29 – Qian Chu, king of Wuyue (d. 988)
• al-Ta'i', Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (d. 1003)
• Fujiwara no Kaneie, Japanese statesman (d. 990)
• Guo Zhongshu, Chinese painter (approximate date)
• Saigū no Nyōgo (Princess Kishi), Japanese waka poet (d. 985)
• William, archbishop of Mainz (d. 968)

Deaths

• January 28 – Gao Jixing, founder of Chinese Jingnan (b. 858)
• February 3 – Guy ("the Philosopher"), margrave of Tuscany (Italy)
• February 12 – Leo VI, pope of the Catholic Church
• March 26 – Wang Du, Chinese warlord and governor (jiedushi)
• April 9 – Cui Xie, Chinese official and chancellor
• June 7 – Ælthryth, English princess and countess of Flanders (b. 877)
• Before August 16 – Sancho Ordóñez, king of Galicia (Spain)
• October 7 – Charles the Simple, Frankish king (b. 879)
• Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Ahmad al-Madhara'i, Abbasid fiscal director
• Abu'l-Musafir al-Fath, Sajid emir of Azerbaijan (Iran)
• Al-Batani, Muslim astronomer and mathematician
• Ashot II, king of Armenia (approximate date)
• Gao Yu, Chinese chief strategist
• Indra III, ruler of Rashtrakuta (India)
• Lothar I, Frankish nobleman (b. 902)
• Lothar II, Frankish nobleman (b. 874)
• Padla II, prince of Kakheti (Georgia)
• Thumal the Qahraman, Abbasid female judge
• Zhao Jingyi, Chinese general and governor