Explore 35 historical events from 930–939.
Zhu Hongzhao was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Later Tang state. He was a close associate of its second emperor. Li Siyuan and became particularly…
Zhu Hongzhao, Chinese general and governor
Yao Yanzhang, courtesy name Jihui (繼徽), was a key general serving under Ma Yin of the Ma Chu dynasty.
Yao Yanzhang, general of Chu
Qian Liu, courtesy name Jumei, childhood name Poliu, also known by his temple name as the King Taizu of Wuyue (吳越太祖), was the founding king of Wuyue during the Five Dynasties and T…
Qian Liu, Chinese warlord and king (born 852)
Meng Hanqiong, was a eunuch of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Tang. He became powerful late in the reign of its second emperor Li Siyuan, in associa…
Meng Hanqiong, eunuch official of Later Tang
Ma Shaohong, known during the reign of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang as Li Shaohong (李紹宏), was a powerful eunuch official/general during the early Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten…
Ma Shaohong, general of Later Tang
The Abbasid caliphs were the holders of the Islamic title of caliph who were members of the Abbasid dynasty, a branch of the Quraysh tribe descended from the uncle of the Islamic p…
Abbasid Caliph Al-Qahir is deposed and blinded
Jimeno Garcés, sometimes Jimeno II, was the King of Pamplona from 925 until his death. He was the brother of King Sancho I Garcés and son of García Jiménez by his second wife, Dad…
Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having s…
The Byzantine Empire reconquers Melitene under the leadership of John Kourkouas
Thietmar (I) (also Thiatmar, Dietmar, or Thiommar) (died 1 June 932), Count and Margrave, was the military tutor (vir disciplinae militaris peritissmus) of Henry the Fowler while …
Thietmar, duke of Saxony
Wang Sitong was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Tang (and Later Tang's predecessor state Jin. In 934, when Li Congke, the adoptive broth…
Wang Sitong, Chinese general and governor (born 892)
The Battle of Simancas was a military battle that started on 19 July 939 in the Iberian Peninsula between the troops of the King of León Ramiro II and Cordovan caliph Abd al-Rahman…
Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of…
The Battle of Alhandic, also known as Battle of Zamora's moat, occurred on 5 August 939 in the city of Zamora, Spain. The battle occurred when the troops of the Caliph of Córdoba, …
The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the…
Yao Yanzhang, courtesy name Jihui (繼徽), was a key general serving under Ma Yin of the Ma Chu dynasty.
Yao Yanzhang, general of Chu
Pope Leo VII was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from 3 January 936 to his death.
Leo VII, pope of the Catholic Church
Wang Jipeng, used the name Wang Chang (王昶) from 935 to 939, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Kangzong of Min (閩康宗), was an emperor of Min during China's Five Dynasties …
Wang Jipeng, Chinese emperor of Min
Li Chunyan was an empress of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Min. Her husband was Wang Jipeng.
Li Chunyan, Chinese empress
Abu’l-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAbbās, better known as Ṣāḥib ibn ʿAbbād, also known as al-Ṣāḥib (الصاحب), was a Persian scholar and statesman, who served as the grand vizier…
Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian scholar and statesman (died 995)
Thankmar was the eldest son of Henry I of Germany by his first wife, Hatheburg of Merseburg. His mother had been previously married and widowed, after which she entered a convent. …
Thankmar, half-brother of Otto I (during Siege of Eresburg) (born c. 908)
Rudolph II was King of Upper Burgundy from 912 until 933, and then King of the united Kingdom of Burgundy from 933 until his death in 937. He was also King of Italy from 922 to 926…
Rudolph II of Burgundy (born 880)
Arnulf II, also known as the Bad, the Evil or the Wicked, a member of the Luitpolding dynasty, held the title of Duke of Bavaria from about 907 until his death in 937. He is number…
Arnulf I, duke of Bavaria
Otto I, known as Otto the Great or Otto of Saxony, was East Frankish (German) king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the eldest son of Henry t…
Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
Henry the Fowler was the duke of Saxony from 912 and the king of East Francia from 919 until his death in 936. As the first non-Frankish king of East Francia, he established the Ot…
Henry the Fowler, German king (born 876)
Xu Ji (許寂), courtesy name Xianxian (閑閑), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Former Shu, serving as a chancellor during the reign of its las…
Xu Ji, Chinese official and chancellor
Saint Unni was an archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. He died as a missionary in Birka in Sweden, where he tried to continue Ansgar's work.
Unni, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
The Abbasid caliphs were the holders of the Islamic title of caliph who were members of the Abbasid dynasty, a branch of the Quraysh tribe descended from the uncle of the Islamic p…
Abbasid Caliph Al-Qahir is deposed and blinded
Wang Sitong was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Tang (and Later Tang's predecessor state Jin. In 934, when Li Congke, the adoptive broth…
Wang Sitong, Chinese general and governor (born 892)
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having s…
The Byzantine Empire reconquers Melitene under the leadership of John Kourkouas
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up…
English king Æthelstan begins his invasion of Scotland with
This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up…
English king Æthelstan begins his invasion of Scotland
Zhu Hongzhao was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Later Tang state. He was a close associate of its second emperor. Li Siyuan and became particularly…
Zhu Hongzhao, Chinese general and governor
Meng Hanqiong, was a eunuch of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Tang. He became powerful late in the reign of its second emperor Li Siyuan, in associa…
Meng Hanqiong, eunuch official of Later Tang
Meng Zhixiang, courtesy name Baoyin (保胤), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Later Shu (後蜀高祖), was the founding emperor of the Chinese Later Shu dynasty during t…
Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general (born 874)
Toledo is a city and municipality in Spain. It is the capital of the province of Toledo and the de jure seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous community of Castill…
After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo, in Spain, surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman…
Qian Liu, courtesy name Jumei, childhood name Poliu, also known by his temple name as the King Taizu of Wuyue (吳越太祖), was the founding king of Wuyue during the Five Dynasties and T…
Qian Liu, Chinese warlord and king (born 852)