934

Year 934 (CMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring and Summer – The Hungarians make an alliance with the Pechenegs, and fight their way through Thrace to Constantinople.
• Battle of W.l.n.d.r: The Hungarians and Pechenegs kill Constantinople's inhabitants, inflict severe damage on the countryside, and defeat both the Byzantine Empire and Bulgaria, forcing them to pay tribute. Emperor Romanos I signs a peace treaty with the Hungarians.^[1]

Europe

• King Henry I ("the Fowler") pacifies the territories to the north, where the Danish Vikings have been harrying the Frisians by sea. He defeats the Danes petty King Gnupa, and conquers Hedeby.
• Summer – Caliph
  Navarra and forces Queen Toda to submit to him. Her son the 15-year-old King García Sánchez I becomes a vassal of the Caliphate of Córdoba
  .
• Haakon I ("the Good"), a son of the late King Harald Fairhair, once again reunites the kingdom after he has deposed his half-brother Eric Bloodaxe. Haakon is installed as king of Norway.
• The Eldgjá volcanic eruption is the largest basalt flood in history (first documented).

England

• King
  Morgan Mwynfawr ("the Old") of Morgannwg are compelled to accompany Æthelstan on his campaign against King Constantine II of Scotland
  .

• ar-Radi
  .
• Summer –
  Ar-Radi, who confirms him later as his viceroy
  .

• March 16 – Meng Zhixiang, a military governor (jiedushi), declares himself emperor (formally called "Gaozu") and establishes Later Shu as a new Chinese state, independent of Later Tang. He dies after a short-lived five-month reign and is succeeded by his son Meng Chang.
• Goryeo forces push the army of Hubaekje back into its heartland and defeat them finally at Hongseong (modern South Korea).

By topic

Religion

• Benedictine monastery, is founded (modern Switzerland
  ).

• Dong Yuan, Chinese painter (approximate date)
• Wolfgang, bishop of Regensburg (approximate date)

Deaths

• caliph (b. 873
  )
• May 9 – Wang Sitong, Chinese general and governor (b. 892)
• May 14
  • Feng Yun, Chinese chancellor (approximate date)
  • Zhu Hongzhao, Chinese general and governor
• May 16 – Meng Hanqiong, eunuch official of Later Tang
• September 7 – Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general (b. 874)
• November 1 – Beornstan, bishop of Winchester
• November 2 – Emma, queen of the West Frankish Kingdom
• mathematician and physician
• Gervadius, Irish hermit and saint (approximate date)
• Gofraid ua Ímair, Viking leader and king of Dublin
• Li Conghou, emperor of Later Tang (b. 914)
• Li Renhan, Chinese general and governor
• Melias, Byzantine general (strategos)
• Olaf Haraldsson, son of Harald Fairhair
• Sale Ngahkwe, king of Pagan (Burma)
• Uallach ingen Muinecháin, Irish poet
• Ten Kingdoms
  )
• Xue Wenjie, official of Min (Ten Kingdoms)

References