923

Year 923 (CMXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• June 15 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I is killed; the Frankish army, led by Charles the Simple, is defeated and routed near Soissons. Charles is captured and imprisoned at Péronne. The nobles elect Robert's son-in-law Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, as king of the West Frankish Kingdom (until 936).^[1]
• Battle of Fiorenzuola: Lombard forces led by King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the deposed Emperor Berengar I at Firenzuola (Tuscany). A pact is reached between Rudolph and Berengar, who abdicates the imperial throne and cedes sovereignty over the rest of Italy.^[2]

• Five Dynasties in China, falls to Later Tang (founded by Li Cunxu). Li proclaims himself emperor and moves his residence back to the old Tang capital of Luoyang
  .
• Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.^[3]

• September 7 – Suzaku, emperor of Japan (d. 952)
• Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Muslim intellectual (d. 1023
  )
• Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, Muslim scholar (approximate date)
• Eadred (or Edred), king of England (d. 955)
• Fujiwara no Nakafumi, Japanese waka poet (d. 992)
• Jeongjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 949
  )
• Liu Honggao, Chinese chancellor (d. 943)

Deaths

• June 15 – Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (b. 860)
• August 2 – Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (or 914)
• August 27 – Ageltrude, queen of Italy and Holy Roman Empress
• Salzburg
• November 20
  • Jing Xiang, Chinese strategist
  • Li Zhen, official of Later Liang
• Abu Bakr al-Khallal, Muslim scholar and jurist (b. 848)
• Adarnase IV, prince of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia)
• Badr al-Hammami (the Elder), Abbasid general
• Tao-Klarjeti
  (Georgia)
• Harshavarman I, king of Angkor (Cambodia)
• Ibn Khuzaymah, Muslim hadith and scholar (b. 837
  )
• Ma Chuo, general and official of Wuyue (or 922)
• Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Persian scholar (b. 839)
• Reccared, Galician clergyman (b. 885)
• Ricwin (or Ricuin), Frankish nobleman
• Walter (or Vaulter), archbishop of Sens
• Wang Yanzhang, general of Later Liang (b. 863)
• Zhao Yan, military prefect and official of Later Liang
• Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (b. 888)

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