906
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| 906 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 906 CMVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1659 |
| Armenian calendar | 355 ԹՎ ՅԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5656 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 827–828 |
| Bengali calendar | 313 |
| Berber calendar | 1856 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1450 |
| Burmese calendar | 268 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6414–6415 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3603 or 3396 — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3604 or 3397 |
| Coptic calendar | 622–623 |
| Discordian calendar | 2072 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 898–899 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4666–4667 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 962–963 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 827–828 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4006–4007 |
| Holocene calendar | 10906 |
| Iranian calendar | 284–285 |
| Islamic calendar | 293–294 |
| Japanese calendar | Engi 6 (延喜６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 805–806 |
| Julian calendar | 906 CMVI |
| Korean calendar | 3239 |
| Minguo calendar | 1006 before ROC 民前1006年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −562 |
| Seleucid era | 1217/1218 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1448–1449 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1032 or 651 or −121 — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1033 or 652 or −120 |
Year 906 (CMVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
By place[edit]
Europe[edit]
- February 27 – Battle of Fritzlar: The Conradines defeat the Babenberg counts, to establish themselves as dukes of Franconia (modern-day Bavaria). Count Conrad the Elder is killed in the battle; his son Conrad the Younger becomes duke of Franconia.
- Summer – Duke Mojmir II halts the advance of the plundering Hungarians under Grand Prince Árpád in Great Moravia (approximate date).
Britain[edit]
- King Constantine II of Scotland calls for an assembly to meet at Scone. Scottish Christian clergy under Bishop Cellach pledges that the laws and disciplines of the faith, and the laws of churches and gospels, should be kept pariter cum Scottis.[1]
Arabian Empire[edit]
- October 22 – Abbasid commander Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire from Tarsus, joined by the governor Rustam ibn Baradu. He reaches the Halys River and takes 4,000–5,000 captives.[2]
Asia[edit]
- January 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong secretly puts Empress Dowager He, the wife of the late Emperor Zhaozong and mother of the reigning Emperor Ai, to death (by strangulation) and has her defamed and posthumously demoted to commoner rank.
Armenia[edit]
- 906 K'argop' earthquake. It took place in the monastery K'argop', Armenia. The monastery was also known as Xotakerk', the monastery of the Vegetarians. The earthquake occurred approximately 150 years following the 735 Vayots Dzor Province earthquake, and affected the same region.[3]
Births[edit]
- June 21 – Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (d. 963)
- Abu Tahir al-Jannabi, Qarmatian ruler (d. 944)
- Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman (d. 943)
- Guan Tong, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)
- Liu Congxiao, Chinese general (d. 962)
- Majolus of Cluny, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
- Nasr II, Samanid emir (d. 943)
- Sherira Gaon, Jewish spiritual leader (d. 1006)
Deaths[edit]
- January 22 – He, empress of the Tang dynasty
- January 27 – Liu Can, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
- February 27 – Conrad the Elder, Frankish nobleman
- September 9 – Adalbert von Babenberg, Frankish nobleman
- Acfred I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
- Dae Wihae, king of Balhae (Korea)
- Tughj ibn Juff, Abbasid governor
- Zhong Chuan, Chinese warlord
References[edit]
- ^ After Anderson, Early Sources, p. 445.
- ^ 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. 172, 180. ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
- ^ Guidoboni, Traina, 1995, p. 126
Sources[edit]
- Guidoboni, Emanuela; Traina, Giusto (1995), "A new catalogue of earthquakes in the historical Armenian area from antiquity to the 12th century", Annals of Geophysics, 38, doi:10.4401/ag-4134