This article is about the year 916. For the motorcycle, see Ducati 916. For the car, see Alfa Romeo 916. For the film, see 916 (film).
916 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 916
CMXVI
Ab urbe condita 1669
Armenian calendar 365
ԹՎ ՅԿԵ
Assyrian calendar 5666
Balinese saka calendar 837–838
Bengali calendar 322–323
Berber calendar 1866
Buddhist calendar 1460
Burmese calendar 278
Byzantine calendar 6424–6425
Chinese calendar 乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
3613 or 3406
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
3614 or 3407
Coptic calendar 632–633
Discordian calendar 2082
Ethiopian calendar 908–909
Hebrew calendar 4676–4677
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 972–973
 - Shaka Samvat 837–838
 - Kali Yuga 4016–4017
Holocene calendar 10916
Iranian calendar 294–295
Islamic calendar 303–304
Japanese calendar Engi 16
(延喜１６年)
Javanese calendar 815–816
Julian calendar 916
CMXVI
Korean calendar 3249
Minguo calendar 996 before ROC
民前996年
Nanakshahi calendar −552
Seleucid era 1227/1228 AG
Thai solar calendar 1458–1459
Tibetan calendar ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Boar)
1042 or 661 or −111
    — to —
མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Rat)
1043 or 662 or −110
Mosaic of Clement of Ohrid (ca. 840–916)

Year 916 (CMXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • Sicilian Berbers in Agrigento revolt and depose the independent Emir Ahmed ibn Khorob. They offer Sicily to the Fatimid Caliphate in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia). Caliph Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah welcomes this turn of events, but refuses to grant the Berber rulers their autonomy. He sends a Fatimid expeditionary force under Abu Said Musa which lands in Sicily and, with some difficulty, takes control of the island. Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah appoints Salam ibn Rashid as the emir of Sicily. Ahmed ibn Khorob is dispatched to Raqqada and executed.[1]

Britain

  • Lady Æthelflæd, daughter of the late King Alfred the Great and the widow of Earl Æthelred of Mercia, sends an army into Brycheiniog to avenge the murder of the Mercian abbot Ecbryht and his companions. They seize and burn the royal fort of King Tewdr of Brycheiniog at Llangorse Lake (Wales), and take the queen and thirty-three others captive.[2]

Asia

  • Abaoji, Khitan ruler and founder of the Liao Dynasty, adopts Chinese court formalities in which he declares himself emperor in the Chinese style and adopts an era name, Taizu of Liao. He names his eldest son Yelü Bei as heir apparent, a first in the history of the Khitan. Abaoji leads a campaign in the west, conquering much of the Mongolian Plains.[3]

By topic

Religion

  • Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs, dies. He is regarded as the first bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the founder of the first Slavic Literary School. Clement is buried in his monastery, Saint Panteleimon, in Ohrid (modern North Macedonia).


Births

  • June 22 – Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir (d. 967)
  • Theodoric I, German nobleman (approximate date)
  • Yuan Zong, emperor of Southern Tang (d. 961)

Deaths

  • March 27 – Alduin I, Frankish nobleman
  • May 25 – Flann Sinna, king of Meath
  • Anarawd ap Rhodri, king of Gwynedd
  • Bencion, Frankish nobleman
  • Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar
  • Ge Congzhou, Chinese general
  • Mór ingen Cearbhaill, queen of Laigin
  • Tighearnach ua Cleirigh, king of Aidhne
  • Theodora, Roman politician
  • Theodoric I, bishop of Paderborn
  • Ziyadat Allah III, Aghlabid emir

References

  1. ^ Italian History: Timeline - Lombard Leagues Board history-timeline?page=10.
  2. ^ Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2013). Wales and the Britons 350–1064. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 505. ISBN 978-0-19-821731-2.
  3. ^ Mote, F. W. (2003). Imperial China: 900–1800. Harvard University Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-0674012127.