905

Calendar year

This article is about the year 905. For other uses, see 905 (disambiguation).

Calendar year

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Millennium
1st millennium
Centuries

* 9th century
* 10th century
* 11th century

Decades

* 880s
* 890s
* 900s
* 910s
* 920s

Years

* 902
* 903
* 904
* 905
* 906
* 907
* 908

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905 by topic

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905 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 905
CMV

|

Ab urbe condita| 1658
Armenian calendar| 354
ԹՎ ՅԾԴ
Assyrian calendar| 5655
Balinese saka calendar| 826–827
Bengali calendar| 311–312
Berber calendar| 1855
Buddhist calendar| 1449
Burmese calendar| 267
Byzantine calendar| 6413–6414
Chinese calendar| 甲子年 (Wood Rat)
3602 or 3395
— to —
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
3603 or 3396
Coptic calendar| 621–622
Discordian calendar| 2071
Ethiopian calendar| 897–898
Hebrew calendar| 4665–4666
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 961–962
\- Shaka Samvat| 826–827
\- Kali Yuga| 4005–4006
Holocene calendar| 10905
Iranian calendar| 283–284
Islamic calendar| 292–293
Japanese calendar| Engi 5
(延喜５年)
Javanese calendar| 804–805
Julian calendar| 905
CMV
Korean calendar| 3238
Minguo calendar| 1007 before ROC
民前1007年
Nanakshahi calendar| −563
Seleucid era| 1216/1217 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1447–1448
Tibetan calendar| ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Rat)
1031 or 650 or −122
— to —
ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་
(female Wood-Ox)
1032 or 651 or −121
Icon of Naum of Preslav

Year 905 (CMV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

## Events

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### By place

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#### Europe

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* Spring – King Berengar I of Italy arranges a truce with the Hungarians, on payment of a tribute. Grand Prince Árpád withdraws from Italy, and begins raiding in Bavaria.
* Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, launches another attempt to invade Italy. A Frankish expeditionary force, led by Adalbert I of Ivrea, captures Pavia, and Berengar I retires to Verona.
* July 21 – Berengar I and a hired Hungarian army defeat the Frankish force at Verona. They take Louis III as prisoner and Berengar blinds him for breaking his oath.
* Louis III returns to Provence. Unable to govern properly, he relinquishes the government of Lower Burgundy to his cousin Hugh, Count of Arles.[1]
* Sancho I succeeds Fortún I as King of Pamplona, and creates a Basque kingdom centered in Navarre (modern-day Spain).

#### Britain

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* Cadell ap Rhodri, king of Seisyllwg (Wales), makes his 25-year-old son Hywel ap Cadell ruler of Dyfed, having conquered that territory. Rhodri ap Hyfaidd, nominally king of Dyfed, is caught and executed, at Arwystli.
* Norse settlers under the Viking warlord Ingimundr, revolt against the Mercians and try to capture the city of Chester. They are beaten off.

#### Arabian Empire

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* Summer – Caliph Al-Muktafi sends an Abbasid army (10,000 men) led by Muhammad ibn Sulayman to re-establish control over Syria and Egypt. The campaign is supported from the sea by a fleet from the frontier districts of Cilicia under Damian of Tarsus. He leads his ships up the Nile River, raids the coast, and intercepts the supplies for the Tulunids.[2]
* Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer, is appointed governor of the provinces of Damascus and Jordan. He is sent to confront a pro-Tulunid rebellion under Muhammad ibn Ali al-Khalanji. The latter manages to capture Fustat and proclaims the restoration of the Tulunids, while the local Abbasid commander withdraws to Alexandria.[3][4]

#### Asia

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* China loses control over Annam (Northern Vietnam). The village notable Khuc Thua Du leads a rebellion against the Tang Dynasty. The Chinese garrison at Tong Binh (modern Hanoi) is destroyed. Khuc Thua Du declares Annam autonomous.
* Abaoji, a Khitan tribal leader, leads 70,000 cavalry into Shanxi (Northern China) to create a 'brotherhood' with Li Keyong, a Shatuo governor (jiedushi) of the Tang Dynasty.
* Emperor Daigo of Japan orders the selection of four court poets, led by Ki no Tsurayuki, to compile the Kokin Wakashū, an early anthology of Waka poetry.

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#### Religion

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* Naum of Preslav, a Bulgarian missionary, founds a monastery on the shores of Lake Ohrid (modern-day North Macedonia), which later receives his name.

## Births

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* Abu al-Misk Kafur, Muslim vizier (d. 968)
* Al-Mustakfi, Abbasid caliph (d. 949)
* Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (d. 959)
* Fulk II, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
* Godfrey, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)

## Deaths

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* March 17 – Li Yu, Prince of De, prince of the Tang Dynasty
* July 5
* Cui Yuan, Chinese chancellor
* Dugu Sun, Chinese chancellor
* Lu Yi, Chinese chancellor (b. 847)
* Pei Shu, Chinese chancellor (b. 841)
* Wang Pu, Chinese chancellor
* Du Hong, Chinese warlord
* Gai Yu, Chinese warlord
* Pei Zhi, Chinese chancellor
* Tribhuvana Mahadevi III, Indian Queen Regnant
* Rhodri ap Hyfaidd, king of Dyfed
* Yahya ibn al-Qasim, Idrisid emir of Morocco[5]
* Yang Xingmi, Chinese governor (b. 852)

## References

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1. ^ Bradbury, Jim (2007). The Capetians: Kings of France, 987-1132. Continuum. p. 63.
2. ^ Rosenthal, Franz, ed. (1985). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 146, 151. ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
3. ^ Rosenthal, Franz, ed. (1985). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. p. 158\. ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
4. ^ Gil, Moshe (1997) [1983]. A History of Palestine, 634–1099. Translated by Ethel Broido. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59984-9.
5. ^ Eustache, D. (1971). "Idrīsids". In Lewis, B.; Ménage, V. L.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume III: H–Iram. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 1035–1037\. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3495. OCLC 495469525.

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