| Years |
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| Millennium |
| 1st millennium |
| Centuries |
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| Decades |
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| Years |
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| 891 by topic |
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| Leaders |
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| Categories |
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| Gregorian calendar | 891 DCCCXCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1644 |
| Armenian calendar | 340 ԹՎ ՅԽ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5641 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 812–813 |
| Bengali calendar | 297–298 |
| Berber calendar | 1841 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1435 |
| Burmese calendar | 253 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6399–6400 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3588 or 3381 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3589 or 3382 |
| Coptic calendar | 607–608 |
| Discordian calendar | 2057 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 883–884 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4651–4652 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 947–948 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 812–813 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3991–3992 |
| Holocene calendar | 10891 |
| Iranian calendar | 269–270 |
| Islamic calendar | 277–278 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanpyō 3 (寛平３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 789–790 |
| Julian calendar | 891 DCCCXCI |
| Korean calendar | 3224 |
| Minguo calendar | 1021 before ROC 民前1021年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −577 |
| Seleucid era | 1202/1203 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1433–1434 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dog) 1017 or 636 or −136 — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1018 or 637 or −135 |
Year 891 (DCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- February 21 – Guy III, duke of Spoleto, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Stephen V. His son Lambert is proclaimed king of Italy, at the capital of Pavia in Lombardy.[1]
- Summer – Orso, Lombard prince of Benevento, is deposed after the capture of Benevento by the Byzantines. Benevento becomes the capital of the thema of Longobardia.[2]
- Battle of Leuven: Viking raiders on the Dyle River (near Leuven), in modern-day Belgium, suffer a crushing defeat by Frankish forces under King Arnulf of Carinthia.
Emirate of Córdoba
- Muslim forces led by Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Umayyad emir of Córdoba, defeat the rebel leader Umar ibn Hafsun at Poley, in Al-Andalus (modern Spain).
Arabian Empire (Caliphate)
- June 2 – Al-Muwaffaq, an Abbasid prince and Commander-in-chief, dies at the capital of Baghdad. His son Al-Mu'tadid is recognized as regent, and second heir of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Japan
- February 25 – Fujiwara no Mototsune, a Japanese statesman, dies. In his lifetime, he had forced the resignation of Emperor Yōzei and become head of the Fujiwara clan.
By topic
Religion
- September 14 – Pope Stephen V dies after a 6-year reign. He is succeeded by Formosus, former cardinal bishop of Portus, as the 111th pope of the Catholic Church.
Births
- Abd al-Rahman III, Umayyad caliph (or 889)
- Ali ibn Buya, founder of the Buyid Dynasty (or 892)
- Gao Conghui, prince and ruler of Jingnan (d. 948)
- Lin Ding, Chinese official and chancellor (d. 944)
- Yuan Dezhao, Chinese chancellor (d. 968)
Deaths
- February 25 – Fujiwara no Mototsune, Japanese regent (b. 836)
- June 2 – Al-Muwaffaq, Abbasid prince and regent (b. 842)
- June 25 – Sunderolt, archbishop of Mainz
- September 14 – Stephen V, pope of the Catholic Church
- October 23 – Yazaman al-Khadim, Abbasid emir
- Bernard, illegitimate son of Charles the Fat (or 892)
- Chen Yan, Chinese warlord and governor
- Enchin, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 814)
- Gu Yanlang, Chinese warlord and governor
- Isma'il ibn Bulbul, Abbasid official and vizier
- Mutimir of Serbia, ruler of Principality of Serbia
- Wang Hui, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
References
- ^ Mann III, p. 377.
- ^ Kreutz 1996, pp. 63–66.
Sources
- Kreutz, Barbara M. (1996). Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1587-7.