Explore 28 historical events from 900–909.
Tondo, also popularly known referred to as the Kingdom of Tondo, was a Tagalog and Kapampangan settlement which served as a major trade hub located on the northern part of the Pasi…
A debt was pardoned by the chief of Tondo on the island of Luzon and recorded on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is an official acquittance certificate inscribed onto a copper plate in the Shaka year 822. It is the earliest-known, extant, calendar-dated docu…
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Comma
Boris I, venerated as Saint Boris I (Mihail) the Baptizer, was the ruler (knyaz) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 852 to 889. Despite a number of military setbacks, the reign of …
Boris I of Bulgaria
Wang Zongji (王宗佶), né Gan (甘), was an adoptive son of Wang Jian, the founding emperor of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Former Shu. He was the oldest among Wang J…
Wang Zongji, Chinese prince and pretender
Dionysius II was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 896/897 until his death in 908/909.
Dionysius II, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch
Adalgar, venerated as Saint Adalgar, was the third archbishop of Bremen from 888 until his death. Adalgar is revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.…
Adalgar, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Zhang Wenwei (張文蔚), courtesy name Youhua (右華), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and the Tang's succeeding Later Liang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns …
Zhang Wenwei, Chinese chancellor
Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (後梁太祖), personal name Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠), né Zhu Wen (朱溫), name later changed to Zhu Huang (朱晃), nickname Zhu San, was a Chinese military general, mon…
Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule
Cheng Rui, adoptive name Guo Yu, formally the Prince of Shanggu (上谷王), was a warlord late in the Chinese Tang dynasty who ruled Jingnan Circuit from 888 to 903, until he was defeat…
Cheng Rui, Chinese warlord
Yang Wo, courtesy name Chengtian, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Liezu of Yang Wu (楊吳烈祖), was the first independent ruler of the Chinese Yang Wu dynasty during the Fi…
Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
Dionysius II was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 896/897 until his death in 908/909.
Dionysius II, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch
Adalgar, venerated as Saint Adalgar, was the third archbishop of Bremen from 888 until his death. Adalgar is revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.…
Adalgar, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
Zhang Wenwei (張文蔚), courtesy name Youhua (右華), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and the Tang's succeeding Later Liang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns …
Zhang Wenwei, Chinese chancellor
Wang Zongji (王宗佶), né Gan (甘), was an adoptive son of Wang Jian, the founding emperor of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Former Shu. He was the oldest among Wang J…
Wang Zongji, Chinese prince and pretender
Yang Wo, courtesy name Chengtian, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Liezu of Yang Wu (楊吳烈祖), was the first independent ruler of the Chinese Yang Wu dynasty during the Fi…
Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
Zhang Hao was a guard commander for late Chinese Tang dynasty warlord Yang Xingmi the Prince of Wu, who was the military governor (jiedushi) of Huainan Circuit, and Yang Xingmi's s…
Zhang Hao, general of Yang Wu
Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (後梁太祖), personal name Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠), né Zhu Wen (朱溫), name later changed to Zhu Huang (朱晃), nickname Zhu San, was a Chinese military general, mon…
Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule
Boris I, venerated as Saint Boris I (Mihail) the Baptizer, was the ruler (knyaz) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 852 to 889. Despite a number of military setbacks, the reign of …
Boris I of Bulgaria
Luitpold, perhaps of the Huosi family or related to the Carolingian dynasty by Liutswind, mother of Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia, was the ancestor of the Luitpolding dynasty which r…
Luitpold, margrave of Bavaria
Dietmar I or Thietmar I, commonly spelled Theotmar, was the archbishop of Salzburg from 873 to 907.
Dietmar I, archbishop of Salzburg
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad was the amir of Sistan from 923 until his death in 963. He is responsible for restoring Saffarid rule over Sistan, and was a great patron of the arts.
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (died 963)
Berengar I was King of Italy from 887 and Holy Roman Emperor from 915 until his death in 924. He is usually known as Berengar of Friuli, since he ruled the March of Friuli from 874…
King Berengar I of Italy and a hired Hungarian army defeats the Frankish forces at Verona. King Louis III is captured…
Cui Yuan (崔遠), courtesy name Changzhi (昌之), formally the Baron of Boling (博陵男), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving two terms as chancellor during the reigns of Em…
Cui Yuan, Chinese chancellor
Dugu Sun, courtesy name Yousun (又損), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Zhaozong and Emperor Zhaozong's son Emperor A…
Dugu Sun, Chinese chancellor
Berengar I was King of Italy from 887 and Holy Roman Emperor from 915 until his death in 924. He is usually known as Berengar of Friuli, since he ruled the March of Friuli from 874…
King Berengar I of Italy and a hired Hungarian army defeat the Frankish forces at Verona. King Louis III is captured…
Lu Yi (陸扆), né Lu Yundi (陸允迪), courtesy name Xiangwen (祥文), formally the Duke of Wu Commandery (吳郡公), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who served as chancellor twice du…
Lu Yi, Chinese chancellor (born 847)
Pei Shu (裴樞), courtesy name Jisheng (紀聖) or Huasheng (化聖), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who served two terms as chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Zhaozong and…
Pei Shu, Chinese chancellor (born 841)
Wang Pu (王溥), courtesy name Derun (德潤), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor from 901 to 903, during the reign of Emperor Zhaozong. He was k…
Wang Pu, Chinese chancellor
Louis the Blind was king in Provence and Lower Burgundy from 890 to 928, and also king of Italy from 900 to 905, and also the emperor between 901 and 905, styled as Louis III. His …
Louis III, Holy Roman Emperor, was captured and blinded during his attempt to restore Carolingian power over Italy by…
The sack of Thessalonica was the capture and subsequent sack of the Byzantine city of Thessalonica by the Abbasid Caliphate and Tulunids in the year 904, led by Leo of Tripoli, a p…
Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest…
The Arab–Byzantine wars or Muslim–Byzantine wars were a series of wars from the 7th to 11th centuries between the successive Islamic caliphates and the Byzantine Empire. Following …
Arab–Byzantine wars: Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, was sacked by Saracen raiders.
Cheng Rui, adoptive name Guo Yu, formally the Prince of Shanggu (上谷王), was a warlord late in the Chinese Tang dynasty who ruled Jingnan Circuit from 888 to 903, until he was defeat…
Cheng Rui, Chinese warlord
Abu 'l-Abbas Abdallah II was the Emir of Ifriqiya from 902 to 903.
Abdallah II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir
Saint Grimbald was a 9th-century Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Bertin near Saint-Omer, France.
Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (born 827)