925

King Alfonso IV of León (r. 925–931)

Year 925 (CMXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

925 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar925
CMXXV
Ab urbe condita1678
Armenian calendar374
ԹՎ ՅՀԴ
Assyrian calendar5675
Balinese saka calendar846–847
Bengali calendar331–332
Berber calendar1875
Buddhist calendar1469
Burmese calendar287
Byzantine calendar6433–6434
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3622 or 3415
    — to —
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3623 or 3416
Coptic calendar641–642
Discordian calendar2091
Ethiopian calendar917–918
Hebrew calendar4685–4686
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat981–982
 - Shaka Samvat846–847
 - Kali Yuga4025–4026
Holocene calendar10925
Iranian calendar303–304
Islamic calendar312–313
Japanese calendarEnchō 3
(延長３年)
Javanese calendar824–825
Julian calendar925
CMXXV
Korean calendar3258
Minguo calendar987 before ROC
民前987年
Nanakshahi calendar−543
Seleucid era1236/1237 AG
Thai solar calendar1467–1468
Tibetan calendarཤིང་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Monkey)
1051 or 670 or −102
    — to —
ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Wood-Bird)
1052 or 671 or −101

Events

By date

January – June

  • January 5 – Gabellus becomes the first abbot of the monsastery of San Martín de Albelda in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre.
  • January – Hashim ibn Muhammad becomes the new ruler of the Banu Tujib, an Arab state in Spain, upon the death of his father, Muhammad al-Anqar al-Tujibi.[1]
  • May 15 – Nicholas I Mystikos, twice the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and having reigned a second time since 912, dies at the age of 73.
  • May 23 – At Luoyang, Zhao Guangyin, the Grand Chancellor (equivalent to a Prime Minister) of the Emperor Li Cunxu of Later Tang dynasty China, dies. Zhao's duties are assumed by Li Cunxu's son, Prince Li Siyuan.[2]
  • June 29 — Stephen II becomes the new Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, succeeding Nicholas I.[3]

July – December

  • July 4 — At the age of 12, Shabbethai Donnolo, who will become one of the most prominent physicians in Italy and the doctor to the Byzantine court, is kidnapped by Arab slavers as a Fatimid expeditionary force, led by Jafar ibn Obeid, lands in Abruzzo in southern Italy and overruns Apulia and the city of Otranto. After defeating the Byzantine garrisons, the Arabs lay siege to the castle of Oria and destroy it, killing the defenders and taking the women and children as slaves back to North Africa. Donnolo's family pays a ransom and the Fatimid Amir Abu Ahmad Ja'far ibn 'Ubaid sets him free.[4]
  • August — In Spain, Fruela II, King of León and King of Galicia, dies and is temporarily succeeded by his son, Alfonso Fróilaz.
  • September 4 — The coronation of Æthelstan as King of the Anglo-Saxons (comprising the united kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia) takes place on the island of Britain at Kingston upon Thames.[5]
  • September — The Chamberlain Ja'far ibn Ubayd of the Fatimid Caliphate returns to the Fatimid capital of Mahdiya (now in Tunisia) after a successful 17-month campaign to pillage the Byzantine-ruled island of Sicily.[6]
  • October — In Byzantium, John Mystikos, chief minister (paradynasteuon), is deposed by the Emperor Romanos I, flogged, and sent into exile in a monastery. He is replaced by the chamberlain (protovestiarios) Theophanes, who becomes the closest adviser of Emperor Romanos I. At this time the Byzantine Empire has been embroiled in a protracted and disastrous war with Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria.
  • November — In Baghdad (now in Iraq),Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Khaqani is dismissed from his position as the Grand Vizier of the Abbasid Caliphate upon the insistence of the Abassid commander Mu'nis al-Muzaffar.[7]
  • December 10 — In Pamplona in Spain, Jimeno II becomes the new King of Navarre in Spain upon the death of his brother, King Sancho I.[8]
  • December 15 — At Chengdu, capital of the Former Shu dynasty state in China, the Later Tang dynasty generals Li Jiji and Guo Chongtao accept the surrender of the surviving Shu official, Li Yan, representative of the Shu Emperor Wang Zongyan.[2]
  • December 28 — In China, Guo Chongtao, military commander of the Later Tang dynasty that rules from what is now the Henan province, has his deputy commanders Wang Zongbi, Wang Zongxun and Wang Zongwo arreted and executed on accusations of disloyalty, after receiving permission from Prince Li Jiji, 13 days after their victory over the Former Shu kingdom.[2]
  • December 30 — Wang Shenzhi, the Chinese ruler of the Min Kingdom (now part of the Fujian province, with a capital of Fuzhou), dies after a long illness and is succeeded by his eldest son, Wang Yanhan.[2]

By place

Europe

  • Summer – King Fruela II dies after a reign of only 14 months. He is succeeded by his son Alfonso Fróilaz who ascends the throne. With the support of King Jimeno II of Pamplona (later Navarra), Sancho Ordóñez, Alfonso, and Ramiro (the sons of the late King Ordoño II) revolt and drive their cousin Alfonso to the eastern marches of Asturias, then divide the kingdom amongst themselves. Alfonso IV ("the Monk") receives the crown of León, and Sancho I is acclaimed king of Galicia.[9]
  • Alberic I, duke of Spoleto, attempts to seize Rome on his own account. Pope John X organizes an uprising and expels him. Alberic flees to Orte, where he sends out messengers calling on the Magyars for assistance. But a mob in Orte, informed by papal agents, rises up and murders Alberic (approximate date).
  • King Rudolph II of Burgundy (who also rules Italy) and his father-in-law, Burchard II of Swabia, lead a Burgundian expeditionary force over the Great St. Bernard Pass to confront Hugh of Provence. They head to the city of Ivrea where Rudolph's forces begin a civil war against Lombard partisans.
  • Tomislav, duke of the Croatian duchies of Pannonia and Dalmatia, is crowned as king of Croatia. He forges an alliance with the Byzantines during the struggle with the Bulgarian Empire (approximate date).

Asia

  • Winter – Former Shu, one of the Ten Kingdoms in China, is invaded by Later Tang forces of Emperor Zhuang Zong, who incorporates the kingdom into his domains.
  • A visiting Uyghur delegation spurs the development of Khitan small script, based on alphabetic principles (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

Births

  • May – Bruno I, archbishop and duke of Lotharingia (d. 965)
  • Basil Lekapenos, Byzantine chief minister (d. 985) (approximate date)
  • Conrad I, king of Burgundy (approximate date)
  • Fujiwara no Kanemichi, Japanese statesman (d. 977)
  • Gerberga, Frankish noblewoman (approximate date)
  • Gwangjong (personal name: Wang So), king of Goryeo (d. 975)
  • John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)
  • Judith, duchess regent of Bavaria (d. 985)
  • Li Fang, Chinese scholar and official (d. 996)
  • Pan Mei, general of the Song dynasty (d. 991) (approximate date)
  • Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (d. 940)
  • Thietmar, Margrave of Meissen (approximate date)
  • Widukind of Corvey, Saxon chronicler (approximate date)

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Granja, Fernando de la (1967). "La Marca Superior en la Obra de al-ʿUdrí". Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragon (in Spanish). 8: 498.
  2. ^ a b c d Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 274.
  3. ^ Runciman, Steven (1988). The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
  4. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Richard Gottheil (1901–1906). "Shabbethai Donnolo". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
  5. ^ Foot, Sarah (2011). Æthelstan: The First King of England. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0-30-012535-1.
  6. ^ Heinz Halm, Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden [The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids] (in German) (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1991) ISBN 978-3-406-35497-7 pp. 213–214
  7. ^ van Berkel, Maaike (2013). "The Vizier". Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32). Leiden: Brill. pp. 65–86. ISBN 978-90-04-25271-4.
  8. ^ Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2007). Sancho III el Mayor Rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus (in Spanish). Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia. ISBN 978-84-96467-47-7.
  9. ^ Rodriguez Fernández, Justiniao (1997). García I, Ordoño II, Fruela II, Alfonso IV. Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda. pp. 176–178. ISBN 84-920046-8-1.
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