901
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 9th century – 10th century – 11th century |
| Decades: | 870s 880s 890s – 900s – 910s 920s 930s |
| Years: | 898 899 900 – 901 – 902 903 904 |
| 901 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 901 CMI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1654 |
| Armenian calendar | 350 ԹՎ ՅԾ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5651 |
| Bengali calendar | 308 |
| Berber calendar | 1851 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1445 |
| Burmese calendar | 263 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6409–6410 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3597 or 3537 — to — 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3598 or 3538 |
| Coptic calendar | 617–618 |
| Discordian calendar | 2067 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 893–894 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4661–4662 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 957–958 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 823–824 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4002–4003 |
| Holocene calendar | 10901 |
| Iranian calendar | 279–280 |
| Islamic calendar | 288–289 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōtai 4 / Engi 1 (延喜元年) |
| Julian calendar | 901 CMI |
| Korean calendar | 3234 |
| Minguo calendar | 1011 before ROC 民前1011年 |
| Seleucid era | 1212/1213 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1443–1444 |
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Year 901 (CMI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
America
- The Mesoamerican ballgame court is dedicated at Uxmal.
Africa
- Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i leads the rebellion of the Kutama Berbers against the Aghlabid emirate in Ifriqiya (today Tunisia).[1]
Asia
- The Kingdom of Hu Goguryeo (later called Taebong) is established by Gung Ye in the Korean peninsula.
- Fuzhou City is expanded with construction of a new city wall ("Luo City").
- Zhu Wen seizes the imperial Tang Dynasty capital.
- Abaoji is elected chieftain of the Yila Tribe of the Khitan.
- January 25 – In Japan, the poet Sugawara no Michizane is exiled to Dazaifu.[2]
Europe
- February 15 or February 22 – Louis the Blind (c.833-928) is crowned Emperor of Occident at Rome.[3] Berenger of Friuli is defeated and has to seek refuge in Bavaria at the court of Louis the Child.[4]
- June 10 – the Aghlabids sack Reggio Calabria.[5]
- July 10 – In al-Andalus Ibn al-Qitt and Abu Ali al-Sarraj, call for the small jihad but are defeated by Alfonso III of Leon at the battle of Zamora.[6]
- Fall[7] – Æthelwold of Wessex, rebels against his cousin Edward the Elder and comes with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes of East Anglia to rise up.[8]
- The first written mention yet found of Shrewsbury.
By topic
Religion
- January 6 – Speech of Arethas of Caesarea at the occasion of the Epiphany. He becomes the official rhetor at the court of Leo VI the Wise at Constantinople and is nominated the bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia.[9]
- March 1 – Nicholas Mystikos, a layman close to Photios, become patriarch of Constantinople.[10]
Births
Deaths
- February 18 – Thābit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician
- April – Ubayd Allah ibn Sulayman, Abbasid vizier
- July 8 – Saint Grimbald
References
- ↑ T.W. Arnold E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume 9 BRILL, 1987 ISBN 978-90-04-08265-6
- ↑ Éric Faure Les fêtes traditionnelles à Kyôto : un voyage dans les traditions de l'ancien Japon Editions L'Harmattan, 2003 ISBN 978-2-7475-5451-0
- ↑ Charles Albert Cingria La reine Berthe L'AGE D'HOMME, 1992 ISBN 978-2-8251-0347-0
- ↑ Marie Nicolas Bouillet Atlas universel d'histoire et de géographie, Volume 1 L. Hachette, 1865
- ↑ Giovanni Fiore Della Calabria illustrata, Volume 3 Rubbettino Editore srl, 1999 ISBN 978-88-498-0196-5
- ↑ Jean-Michel Poisson Frontière et peuplement dans le monde méditerranéen au Moyen Âge: actes du colloque d'Erice, Trapani (Italie), tenu du 18 au 25 septembre 1988, Volume 4 Casa de Velázquez, 1992 ISBN 978-2-7283-0256-7
- ↑ Anglo-Saxons.net : Edward the Elder
- ↑ N. J. Higham, David Hill Edward the Elder, 899-924 Routledge, 2001 ISBN 978-0-415-21497-1
- ↑ Michael Grünbart Theatron : rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter Walter de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 978-3-11-019476-0
- ↑ Theodora Antonopoulou The Homilies of the Emperor Leo VI BRILL, 1997 ISBN 978-90-04-10814-1