906

906 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar906
CMVI
Ab urbe condita1659
Armenian calendar355
ԹՎ ՅԾԵ
Assyrian calendar5656
Balinese saka calendar827–828
Bengali calendar312–313
Berber calendar1856
Buddhist calendar1450
Burmese calendar268
Byzantine calendar6414–6415
Chinese calendar乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
3603 or 3396
    — to —
丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
3604 or 3397
Coptic calendar622–623
Discordian calendar2072
Ethiopian calendar898–899
Hebrew calendar4666–4667
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat962–963
 - Shaka Samvat827–828
 - Kali Yuga4006–4007
Holocene calendar10906
Iranian calendar284–285
Islamic calendar293–294
Japanese calendarEngi 6
(延喜６年)
Javanese calendar805–806
Julian calendar906
CMVI
Korean calendar3239
Minguo calendar1006 before ROC
民前1006年
Nanakshahi calendar−562
Seleucid era1217/1218 AG
Thai solar calendar1448–1449
Tibetan calendarཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Wood-Ox)
1032 or 651 or −121
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Tiger)
1033 or 652 or −120
King Constantine II of Scotland

Year 906 (CMVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • February 27 – Battle of Fritzlar: The Conradines defeat the Babenberg counts, to establish themselves as dukes of Franconia (modern-day Bavaria). Count Conrad the Elder is killed in the battle; his son Conrad the Younger becomes duke of Franconia.
  • Summer – Duke Mojmir II halts the advance of the plundering Hungarians under Grand Prince Árpád in Great Moravia (approximate date).

Britain

  • King Constantine II of Scotland calls for an assembly to meet at Scone. Scottish Christian clergy under Bishop Cellach pledges that the laws and disciplines of the faith, and the laws of churches and gospels, should be kept pariter cum Scottis.[1]

Arabian Empire

  • October 22 – Abbasid commander Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire from Tarsus, joined by the governor Rustam ibn Baradu. He reaches the Halys River and takes 4,000–5,000 captives.[2]

Asia

  • January 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong secretly puts Empress Dowager He, the wife of the late Emperor Zhaozong and mother of the reigning Emperor Ai, to death (by strangulation) and has her defamed and posthumously demoted to commoner rank.

Armenia

  • 906 K'argop' earthquake: It takes place in the monastery K'argop', Armenia. The monastery is also known as Xotakerk', the monastery of the Vegetarians. The earthquake occurs approximately 150 years following the 735 Vayots Dzor Province earthquake, and affects the same region.[3]


Births

  • June 21 – Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (d. 963)
  • Abu Tahir al-Jannabi, Qarmatian ruler (d. 944)
  • Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman (d. 943)
  • Guan Tong, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)
  • Liu Congxiao, Chinese general (d. 962)
  • Majolus of Cluny, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
  • Nasr II, Samanid emir (d. 943)
  • Sherira Gaon, Jewish spiritual leader (d. 1006)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ After Anderson, Early Sources, p. 445.
  2. ^ Rosenthal, Franz, ed. (1985). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 172, 180. ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
  3. ^ Guidoboni, Traina, 1995, p. 126

Sources

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