903

This page relates to the year 903 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Middle East

  • Beginning of the domination samanide on the Afghanistan saffaride (fine in 999).
  • Agitation of the Qarmates (sect ismaïlienne founded by Hamdan Qarmat, peasant of Iraq) led by Abu Saïd Al-Jannabi in the Abbasid Empire . It seizes Bahrain and of Dhikrawah in Syria, Damas holds to ransom and massacres the population of Baalbek between 903 and 906.
  • the effects on the trade and the rural life of the revolts of the Zandj and the Qarmates weaken the mode of Baghdad.

Europe

Art & culture

  • Hunayn Ibn Ishak written history of the Arab eminent doctors .
  • invaluable Atours , encyclopedia of Iranian Ibn Rustah. It leaves precise descriptions of routes and cities.

Births in 903

Death in 903

  • December 6th: The pope Leon V, imprisoned in September, strangled by the antipape Christophe.

Be-X-old: 903 Map-bms: 903

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