Handfasting

This page relates to the year 916 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

  • the Khitan under the control of Have-CAM-ki impose their authority on the Mongolia and push back the Kyrgyz towards the Siberia.
  • In India, the king Mahipala of Kanauj is overcome by the king Rastrakuta Indra III which goes until Delhi.

Africa

Europe

  • the pope Jean X, organizes an Italian league against the Sarrasins chaired by the emperor Bérenger Ier of the Friuli.

  • the emperor of Constantinople sends its galères on Naples and forces the city and its neighbors to break their alliance with the Arab . Buckwheats are beaten on the Garigliano, and must give up their base.
  • Beginning of the reign of Tomislav in Croatia (916 - 928).

  • Since the Northumbrie, the Norwegians gather a considerable fleet with Waterford (Vedrfjödhr) in Ireland. The Irishmen mobilize themselves, but are overcome in the island of Corfey during a bloody battle, during which the archbishop of Armagh is killed. The chief Sigtrýggr Viking can enter to Dublin and reconstitute a Norwegian kingdom.

  • the king of Wessex Edouard Old the undertakes a systematic fight against the Danes and is almost always victorious.

  • the ministeria of Saint-Omer build the castle of their community.

Births in 916

Death in 916

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Map-bms: 916

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