923 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 923
CMXXIII
Ab urbe condita 1676
Armenian calendar 372
ԹՎ ՅՀԲ
Assyrian calendar 5673
Balinese saka calendar 844–845
Bengali calendar 329–330
Berber calendar 1873
Buddhist calendar 1467
Burmese calendar 285
Byzantine calendar 6431–6432
Chinese calendar 壬午年 (Water Horse)
3620 or 3413
    — to —
癸未年 (Water Goat)
3621 or 3414
Coptic calendar 639–640
Discordian calendar 2089
Ethiopian calendar 915–916
Hebrew calendar 4683–4684
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 979–980
 - Shaka Samvat 844–845
 - Kali Yuga 4023–4024
Holocene calendar 10923
Iranian calendar 301–302
Islamic calendar 310–311
Japanese calendar Engi 23 / Enchō 1
(延長元年)
Javanese calendar 822–823
Julian calendar 923
CMXXIII
Korean calendar 3256
Minguo calendar 989 before ROC
民前989年
Nanakshahi calendar −545
Seleucid era 1234/1235 AG
Thai solar calendar 1465–1466
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Water-Horse)
1049 or 668 or −104
    — to —
ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Water-Sheep)
1050 or 669 or −103
King Rudolph (Raoul) (c. 890–936)

Year 923 (CMXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • June 15Battle of Soissons: King Robert I is killed; the Frankish army, led by Charles the Simple, is defeated and routed near Soissons. Charles is captured and imprisoned at Péronne. The nobles elect Robert's son-in-law Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, as king of the West Frankish Kingdom (until 936).[1]
  • July 29Battle of Fiorenzuola: Lombard forces led by King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the deposed Emperor Berengar I at Firenzuola (Tuscany). A pact is reached between Rudolph and Berengar, who abdicates the imperial throne and cedes sovereignty over the rest of Italy.[2]

Asia

  • May 13 – The Later Liang, one of the Five Dynasties in China, falls to Later Tang (founded by Li Cunxu). Li proclaims himself emperor and moves his residence back to the old Tang capital of Luoyang.
  • August 11 – The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.[3]


Births

  • September 7Suzaku, emperor of Japan (d. 952)
  • Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Muslim intellectual (d. 1023)
  • Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, Muslim scholar (approximate date)
  • Eadred (or Edred), king of England (d. 955)
  • Fujiwara no Nakafumi, Japanese waka poet (d. 992)
  • Jeongjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 949)
  • Liu Honggao, Chinese chancellor (d. 943)

Deaths

  • June 15Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (b. 860)
  • August 2Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (or 914)
  • August 27Ageltrude, queen of Italy and Holy Roman Empress
  • October 8Pilgrim I, archbishop of Salzburg
  • November 20
    • Jing Xiang, Chinese strategist
    • Li Zhen, official of Later Liang
  • Abu Bakr al-Khallal, Muslim scholar and jurist (b. 848)
  • Adarnase IV, prince of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia)
  • Badr al-Hammami (the Elder), Abbasid general
  • Gurgen I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
  • Harshavarman I, king of Angkor (Cambodia)
  • Ibn Khuzaymah, Muslim hadith and scholar (b. 837)
  • Ma Chuo, general and official of Wuyue (or 922)
  • Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Persian scholar (b. 839)
  • Reccared, Galician clergyman (b. 885)
  • Ricwin (or Ricuin), Frankish nobleman
  • Walter (or Vaulter), archbishop of Sens
  • Wang Yanzhang, general of Later Liang (b. 863)
  • Zhao Yan, military prefect and official of Later Liang
  • Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (b. 888)

References

  1. ^ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 379. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  2. ^ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III, p. 349. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
  3. ^ Halm, Heinz (1991). Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden [The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. p. 226. ISBN 978-3-406-35497-7.