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Year 909 was a common year starting on Sunday
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Common year starting on Sunday
This is the calendar for any common year starting on Sunday, January 1 or for any year in which “Doomsday” is Tuesday. Examples: Gregorian years 1989, 1995, 2006, 2017 and 2023or Julian year 1917...
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Julian calendar
The Julian calendar began in 45 BC as a reform of the Roman calendar by Julius Caesar. It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year .The Julian calendar has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months...
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Africa
- The Aghlabid dynasty in North AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
is overthrown by the Fatimids. - The BerberBerber peopleBerbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch...
KutamaKutamaThe Kutama were a powerful Berber tribe, in the region of Jijel , a member of the great Sanhaja confederation of the Maghrib and the armed body of the Fatimid Caliphate.-Origins of the Kutama:...
tribesmen, allied to the FatimidFatimidThe Fatimid Islamic Caliphate or al-Fāṭimiyyūn was a Berber Shia Muslim caliphate first centered in Tunisia and later in Egypt that ruled over varying areas of the Maghreb, Sudan, Sicily, the Levant, and Hijaz from 5 January 909 to 1171.The caliphate was ruled by the Fatimids, who established the...
, take and destroy the capital city of the RustamidRustamidThe Rustamid dynasty of Ibāḍī Kharijite imām that ruled the central Maghreb as a Muslim theocracy for a century and a half from their capital Tahert in present Algeria until the Ismailite Fatimid Caliphs destroyed it. The dynasty had a Persian origin...
imamate, Tihert. The remaining IbadiIbadiThe Ibāḍī movement, Ibadism or Ibāḍiyya is a form of Islam distinct from the Sunni and Shia denominations. It is the dominant form of Islam in Oman and Zanzibar...
are forced into the desert.
Asia
- The MinMin (Ten Kingdoms)Min was one of the Ten Kingdoms which was in existence between the years of 909 and 945. It existed in a mountainous region of modern day Fujian province of China and had a history of quasi-independent rule. Its capital was Fuzhou 福州. It was founded by Wang Shenzhi .-Founding:Wang Shenzhi’s older...
Kingdom is established in today's Fujian Province, with FuzhouFuzhouFuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong linguistic and cultural area....
(then known as ChangleChangleChangLe is a county-level city of suburban Fuzhou located in east Fujian province, People's Republic of China. Administered by Fuzhou city. Changle occupies a land area of 648 square kilometers and a sea area of 1327 square kilometers. Changle was established in the sixth year of Emperor Wu-De ...
) as its capital, by Wang ShenzhiWang ShenzhiWang Shenzhi , courtesy name Xintong or Xiangqing , formally Prince Zhongyi of Min and later further posthumously honored as Emperor Taizu of Min , was the founder of Min on the southeast coast of China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period of Chinese history...
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Births
- DunstanDunstanDunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church...
, Archbishop of CanterburyArchbishop of CanterburyThe Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group... - Æthelwold of WinchesterÆthelwold of WinchesterÆthelwold of Winchester , was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984 and one of the leaders of the tenth century monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England....
, bishop, leader of the monastic reform movement
Deaths
- May 9 – AdalgarAdalgarAdalgar was the third archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 888 until his death. Adalgar is revered as a saint. His feast day is 29 April....
, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen - Gerald of AurillacGerald of AurillacGerald of Aurillac is a French saint of the Roman Catholic Church, also recognized by other religious denominations of Christianity....
, French saint - Aribo of AustriaAribo of AustriaAribo was the margrave of the March of Pannonia, from 871 until his death...
, Margrave of the Carolingian March - Cerball mac MuirecáinCerball mac MuirecáinCerball mac Muirecáin was king of Leinster. He was the son of Muirecán mac Diarmata and a member of the Uí Fáeláin, the descendants of Fáelán mac Murchado , of one of three septs of the Uí Dúnlainge of modern County Kildare in Ireland....
, king of Leinster - Cadell ap RhodriCadell ap RhodriCadell ap Rhodri was the son of Rhodri Mawr . He inherited the kingdom of Seisyllwg from his mother Angharad of Seisyllwg in 878, and passed it to his son, Hywel Dda , on his death in 909. Cadell and Hywel had previously conquered Dyfed in 904/905, establishing Hywel as the king in that region...
, Prince of Seisyllwg - DenewulfDenewulfDenewulf was a medieval Bishop of Winchester.Denewulf was consecrated in 879. He died in 909. The twelfth-century chronicler John of Worcester recorded a tradition that Denewulf began life as a swineherd, and was promoted to bishop at an advanced age after a chance encounter with Alfred the Great,...
, Bishop of WinchesterBishop of WinchesterThe Bishop of Winchester is the head of the Church of England diocese of Winchester, with his cathedra at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire.The bishop is one of five Church of England bishops to be among the Lords Spiritual regardless of their length of service. His diocese is one of the oldest and... - Fujiwara no TokihiraFujiwara no Tokihirawas a Japanese statesman, courtier and politician during the Heian period.-Career:Tokihira was a minister under Emperor Daigo.* 891 : Tokihira was given a rank which was the equivalent of sangi....
, Japanese noble, regent under the Emperors of Japan - Luo YinLuo YinLuo Yin , born Luo Heng, courtesy name Zhaojian , was a Chinese statesman and poet of the Tang Dynasty. Luo was born in Yuhang, Zhejiang. At the age of 20, he took his first imperial exam. He failed the exam ten times...
, statesman and poet of the Tang Dynasty (born 833833Year 833 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.- Asia :* al-Mu'tasim succeeds his brother Al-Ma'mun as Abbasid caliph....
) - Sochlachan mac DiarmataSochlachan mac DiarmataSochlachan mac Diarmata was 31st King of Uí Maine.Sochlanchan's reign is unremarked, apart from his obit - "Mughroin, son of Sochlachan, lord of Ui-Maine, died." Any descendants he might have had are apparently unrecorded, though his successor, Murchadh mac Sochlachan, may have been his son...
, 31st King of Uí Maine - WighelmWighelmWighelm is a probable Bishop of Selsey.Wighelm's see is uncertain, but as he is the sole episcopal witness on a charter, involving land in the area, suggests that he had authority in Sussex.Wighelm died sometime between 909 and 925.-External links:*...
, Bishop of Selsey - WigmundWigmund (bishop)Wigmund or Wilferth was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.He was consecrated between 889 and 900 and died between 903 and 915.-External links:*...
, Bishop of LichfieldBishop of LichfieldThe Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 4,516 km² of the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands. The bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed...