914

This article is about the year 914. For the car, see Porsche 914.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	880s 890s 900s – 910s – 920s 930s 940s
Years:	911 912 913 – 914 – 915 916 917

914 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 914 (CMXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

February 6 – the Fatimid general, Husaba of the Kutama Berber tribe, takes Barqah (Benghazi).^[1]
July 11 – al-Qa'im, son of the Fatimid caliph Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi leaves Raqqada in an attempt to conquer Egypt.^[1]
August 27 – Hubasa takes Alexandria after his victory on the Egyptian troops near al-Hanniyya; yet Tekin, the Abbassid governor refuses to surrender and asks for reenforcements which reach him in September.
November 6 – Al-Qaim enters in Alexandria with the rest of his army.^[1]
December – the Fatimid army leaves Alexandria under Husaba, followed from afar by Al-Qaim. The Abbassid troops hold to Fustat and Berber cavalery suffers heavy looses to the Turkish archers.^[1]

January 15 – The Samanid prince of Bukhara Ahmad II Samani is murdered. His son, Nasr ibn Ahmad, succeeds him at the age of 8, under the regency of vizir Abu ’Abd-Allah al-Jaihani. The Abbassids try to benefit from the turmoil of the interregnum to reconquer Sistan, in vain.^[2]
In India, beginning of the rule of Indra III, kingRashtrakuta of Malkhed.^[3]
Nanjing is reconstructed after a long desertion, marking the beginning of contemporary Nanjing City.

January 2 – Ordoño II, king of Galicia, becomes king of Leon after the death of his brother, García. He settles his court in León.^[4]
February beginning of the regency of Zoe Karbonopsina, mother of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII, for which she was competing with the patriarch Nicolas Mystikos (end of the regency in 920).^[5]
The town of Warwick, England is founded on the River Avon.
The Vikings conquer much of Ireland.
Ireland's first city, Waterford, is founded on the River Suir.
The Byzantine Empire battles with Bulgaria over the city of Adrianople, which changes hands several times.
In al-Andalus: a drought episod leads to a terrible famine in the Iberian peninsula which continues in 915.^[6] In his centralization effort, the Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Rahman III reconquers Sevilla from the Banu Hajjaj clan.^[7]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Heinz Halm The empire of the Mahdi, Partie 1, Volume 26 BRILL, 1996 ISBN 9789004100565
^ Joel L. Kraemer Philosophy in the renaissance of Islam : Abū Sulaymān Al-Sijistānī and his circle Brill Archive, 1986 ISBN 9789004072589
^ Ancient India Par R.C. Majumdar Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1994 ISBN 9788120804364
^ Ch Paquis, Louis Dochez Histoire d'Espagne Béthune et Plon, 1844
^ Louis Bréhier (1946). "Vie et mort de Byzance". In Albin Michel. Paris: bibliotheque.uqac.ca. pp. 596. http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/brehier_louis/monde_byzantin/brehier_vie_et_mort_byzance.pdf.
^ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
^ Picard, C. (2000) Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle). L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose; pp.54.