915
Year 915 (CMXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 915 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 915 CMXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1668 |
| Armenian calendar | 364 ԹՎ ՅԿԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5665 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 836–837 |
| Bengali calendar | 322 |
| Berber calendar | 1865 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1459 |
| Burmese calendar | 277 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6423–6424 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3611 or 3551 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3612 or 3552 |
| Coptic calendar | 631–632 |
| Discordian calendar | 2081 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 907–908 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4675–4676 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 971–972 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 836–837 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4015–4016 |
| Holocene calendar | 10915 |
| Iranian calendar | 293–294 |
| Islamic calendar | 302–303 |
| Japanese calendar | Engi 15 (延喜１５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 814–815 |
| Julian calendar | 915 CMXV |
| Korean calendar | 3248 |
| Minguo calendar | 997 before ROC 民前997年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −553 |
| Seleucid era | 1226/1227 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1457–1458 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1041 or 660 or −112 — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1042 or 661 or −111 |
Events
Europe
- Summer – Battle of Garigliano: The Christian League, personally led by Pope John X, lays siege to Garigliano (a fortified Arab camp in the area of Minturno), which is blockaded from the sea by the Byzantine navy. After three months of siege, plagued by hunger, the Saracens decide to break out of Garigliano and find their way back to Sicily by any means possible. Christian hunting parties fall on the fleeing Arabs, and all are captured and executed.[1]
- July – The Magyars (Hungarians), led by Zoltán, only son of the late Grand Prince Árpád, attack Swabia, Franconia and Saxony. Small units penetrate as far as Bremen, burning the city.
Religion
- December 3 – John X crowns the Italian sovereign Berengar I as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. Berengar returns to northern Italy, where Friuli is threatened by the Hungarians.
Births
- January 13 – Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (d. 976)
- Abu Shakur Balkhi, Persian poet
- Adalbert I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
- Al-Mutanabbi, Muslim poet (d. 965)
- Boleslaus I, duke of Bohemia (approximate date)
- Burchard III, Frankish nobleman (d. 973)
- Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Jewish diplomat (d. 970)
- Sunifred II, Frankish nobleman (d. 968)
- William III, Frankish nobleman (d. 963)
Deaths
- April 23 – Yang Shihou, Chinese general
- November 4 – Zhang, Chinese empress (b. 892)
- Abu Salih Mansur, Samanid governor
- Adalbert II, Lombard nobleman
- Al-Nasa'i, Muslim scholar and hadith compiler
- Bertila of Spoleto, queen of Italy
- Cutheard, bishop of Lindisfarne
- Domnall mac Áeda, king of Ailech (Ireland)
- Gonzalo Fernandez, count of Castile
- Gregory IV, duke of Naples
- Jing Hao, Chinese painter
- Leoluca, Sicilian abbot (approximate date)
- Li Yanlu, Chinese warlord
- Ratbod, archbishop of Trier
- Reginar I, Frankish nobleman
- Regino of Prüm, German abbot
- Spytihněv I, duke of Bohemia
- Sunyer II, Frankish nobleman
- Tuotilo, German composer (approximate date)
References
- Peter Partner (January 1, 1972). The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance (illustrated ed.). University of California Press. pp. 81-82. ISBN 9780520021815.
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