928

928 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar928
CMXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1681
Armenian calendar377
ԹՎ ՅՀԷ
Assyrian calendar5678
Balinese saka calendar849–850
Bengali calendar334–335
Berber calendar1878
Buddhist calendar1472
Burmese calendar290
Byzantine calendar6436–6437
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3625 or 3418
    — to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3626 or 3419
Coptic calendar644–645
Discordian calendar2094
Ethiopian calendar920–921
Hebrew calendar4688–4689
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat984–985
 - Shaka Samvat849–850
 - Kali Yuga4028–4029
Holocene calendar10928
Iranian calendar306–307
Islamic calendar315–316
Japanese calendarEnchō 6
(延長6年)
Javanese calendar827–828
Julian calendar928
CMXXVIII
Korean calendar3261
Minguo calendar984 before ROC
民前984年
Nanakshahi calendar−540
Seleucid era1239/1240 AG
Thai solar calendar1470–1471
Tibetan calendarམེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Boar)
1054 or 673 or −99
    — to —
ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Rat)
1055 or 674 or −98
King Hywel Dda (the Good) (c. 880–950)

Year 928 (CMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • King Rudolph I loses the support of Herbert II, count of Vermandois, who controls the prison at Péronne in which former King Charles III (the Simple) is imprisoned. Herbert brings him before William I (Longsword), count of Rouen, for homage and then to Rheims as leverage to blackmail Rudolph to make him cede sovereignty over Laon (Northern France).
  • June 5 – Louis III (the Blind), former king of Provence (Lower Burgundy), dies at Arles after a 27-year reign (of which 23 are sightless). He is succeeded by his brother-in-law Hugh I who is King of Italy. With the approval of his kinsman Rudolph I, Hugh strips Louis's son and heir, Charles Constantine, of his inheritance and proclaims himself as ruler of Provence.
  • Winter – King Henry I (the Fowler) subdues the Polabian Slavs who live on the eastern borders. He then marches against the Slavic Hevelli tribes and seizes their capital, Brandenburg. Henry invades the Glomacze lands in the middle Elbe valley, where he besieges and destroys the main castle called Gana (the later Albrechtsburg) at Meissen (Saxony).[1]

Britain

  • King Hywel Dda (the Good) of Deheubarth makes a pilgrimage to Rome, he becomes the first Welsh ruler to undertake such a trip. Hywel begins the codification of medieval Welsh law and mints his own coinage.

Italy

  • Summer – A Fatimid fleet under Sabir al-Fata raids Byzantine southern Italy. It captures a locality named al-Ghiran ('the caves') in Apulia and sacks the cities of Taranto and Otranto. The inhabitants are carried off to North Africa as slaves.[2]

Asia

  • Ishanavarman II dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by his uncle Jayavarman IV as king of the Khmer Empire (modern Cambodia). He moves the capital north from Angkor to Koh Ker.

By topic

Religion


Births

  • August 14 – Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue (d. 947)
  • Dub mac Maíl Coluīm, king of Scotland (d. 967)
  • Pietro I Orseolo, doge of Venice (d. 987)
  • Qian Hongzong, king of Wuyue (d. 971)
  • Shi Shouxin, Chinese general (d. 984)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Barford, Paul M. (2001). The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 421. ISBN 0-8014-3977-9.
  2. ^ 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. pp. 214–215. ISBN 978-3-406-35497-7.