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924
Calendar year
Year 924 (CMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
This article is about the year 924. For the car, see Porsche 924. For the sleep disorder, see Non-24.
Quick Facts
| Gregorian calendar | 924 CMXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1677 |
| Armenian calendar | 373 ԹՎ ՅՀԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5674 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 845–846 |
| Bengali calendar | 331 |
| Berber calendar | 1874 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1468 |
| Burmese calendar | 286 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6432–6433 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3621 or 3414 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3622 or 3415 |
| Coptic calendar | 640–641 |
| Discordian calendar | 2090 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 916–917 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4684–4685 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 980–981 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 845–846 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4024–4025 |
| Holocene calendar | 10924 |
| Iranian calendar | 302–303 |
| Islamic calendar | 311–312 |
| Japanese calendar | Enchō 2 (延長２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 823–824 |
| Julian calendar | 924 CMXXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3257 |
| Minguo calendar | 988 before ROC 民前988年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −544 |
| Seleucid era | 1235/1236 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1466–1467 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水羊年 (female Water-Goat) 1050 or 669 or −103 — to — 阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1051 or 670 or −102 |
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By place
Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Forces led by Simeon I, ruler (knyaz) of the Bulgarian Empire, arrive before the walls of Constantinople, after they have pillaged the suburbs of the capital. Simeon meets Emperor Romanos I on the Golden Horn to arrange a truce, according to which he pays the Bulgarians an annual tax. Simeon in return cedes back some cities on the Black Sea coast.[1]
Europe
- Spring – King Berengar I makes a new alliance with the Hungarians who, following his death, sack and burn the city of Pavia. They cross the Alps via the St. Bernard Pass, where Provence and Septimania (Southern France) are pillaged. Hungarian forces penetrate as far as the Pyrenees.[2]
- Summer – King Ordoño II of Galicia dies after a 14-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Fruela II, reuniting Asturias now known as the Kingdom of León. Fruela, who is not popular with the nobles, has assassinated the sons of Olmundo, possible descendants of the Visigothic king Wittiza.
- Fall – Bulgarian–Serbian War: Tsar Simeon I sends a punitive expedition force against Serbia, led by Theodore Sigritsa and Marmais, but they are ambushed and defeated. Zaharija, prince of the Serbs, sends their heads and armour later to Constantinople (approximate date).
- Winter – The Hungarians invade Saxony and force King Henry I (the Fowler) to retreat into the Castle of Werla. He makes a pact and agrees to pay them tribute for 9 years. They return to the Po Valley and sack the cities of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua (Northern Italy).
Britain
- July 17 – King Edward the Elder dies at Farndon after a 25-year reign in which he has gained direct control over Mercia, including the Danish-occupied areas. He is succeeded by his eldest son Æthelstan, who will reign as King of England (see 927). He continues his father's conquest of the Danelaw north of the Thames-Lea line from the Vikings. His half-brother Alfweard who also claims the kingship dies on August 2.
Asia
- Emperor Taizu of the Liao Dynasty leads a campaign to the West. He reaches the former capital of the Uyghur Kingdom on the Orkhon River. The Zubu begin to pay tribute to the Khitan Empire.
- Emperor Zhuang Zong of Later Tang bestows the chancellor title on Gao Jixing (Prince of Nanping) and creates the Nanping State (Central China). The Qi State falls to Later Tang.
- March – The Qarmatians of Bahrayn attack and destroy the returning Hajj caravans at al-Habir,[3] leading to the downfall and execution of the Abbasid Caliphate's vizier, Ibn al-Furat.[4]
- Fujiwara no Koretada, Japanese statesman and waka poet (d. 972)
- Fujiwara no Yoritada, Japanese nobleman and regent (d. 989)
- Gao Baoxu, king of Nanping (Ten Kingdoms) (d. 962)
- Li Jingda, prince of Southern Tang (d. 971)
- Nyaung-u Sawrahan, king of the Pagan dynasty (d. 1001)
- Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, Emperor of Viet Nam (d.979)
- January 20 – Li Jitao, general of Later Tang
- April 7 – Berengar I, king of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor
- April 11 – Herman I, archbishop of Cologne
- May 17 – Li Maozhen, Chinese warlord and king (b. 856)
- June 16 – Li Cunshen, general of Later Tang (b. 862)
- July 17 – Edward the Elder, king of Wessex
- July 18 – Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, Abbasid vizier (b. 855)
- August 2 – Ælfweard, son of Edward the Elder
- Damian of Tarsus, Muslim governor
- Gyeongmyeong, king of Silla (Korea)
- Marmais, Bulgarian nobleman
- Ordoño II, king of Galicia and León
- Raymond II, Frankish nobleman
- Theodore Sigritsa, Bulgarian minister
- Yuan Xiangxian, Chinese general
- Zaharija, prince of Serbia (approximate date)
- Runciman, A history of the First Bulgarian Empire, pp. 169–172.
- Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 543. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
- Halm, Heinz (1991). Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden [The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. pp. 226–227. ISBN 3-406-35497-1.
- Kennedy, Hugh (2004). The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (Second ed.). Harlow: Longman. pp. 191–192. ISBN 978-0-582-40525-7.