__NOTOC__ Year 916 ( CMXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

* Sicilian

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in Agrigento revolt and depose the independent Emir Ahmed ibn Khorob. They offer Sicily to the

Fatimid Caliphate The Fatimid Caliphate was an Isma'ilism, Ismaili Shia Islam, Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the ea ...

Ifriqiya Ifriqiya ( '), also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna ( ar, المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (today's western Libya). It included all of what had previously ...

(modern Tunisia). Caliph

Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh/ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (), 873 – 4 March 934, better known by his regnal name al-Mahdi Billah, was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islamic history, and the ...

welcomes this turn of events, but refuses to grant the Berber rulers their autonomy. He sends a Fatimid expeditionary force under Abu Said Musa which lands in Sicily and, with some difficulty, takes control of the island. Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah appoints Salam ibn Rashid as the emir of Sicily. Ahmed ibn Khorob is dispatched to Raqqada and executed.

Britain

* Lady Æthelflæd, daughter of the late King

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and the widow of Earl Æthelred of Mercia, sends an army into Brycheiniog to avenge the murder of the Mercian abbot Ecbryht and his companions. They seize and burn the royal fort of King Tewdr of Brycheiniog at Llangorse Lake ( Wales), and take the queen and thirty-three others captive.

Asia

* Abaoji, Khitan ruler and founder of the Liao Dynasty, adopts

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court formalities in which he declares himself emperor in the Chinese style and adopts an era name, Taizu of Liao. He names his eldest son

Yelü Bei Yelü Bei () (899''History of Liao'', vol. 72. – January 7, 937''Zizhi Tongjian'', vol. 280.Academia Sinicabr>Chinese-Western Calendar Converter), also known as Yelü Tuyu (耶律突欲 or 耶律圖欲), posthumously honored Emperor Wenxian Qi ...

as heir apparent, a first in the history of the Khitan. Abaoji leads a campaign in the west, conquering much of the Mongolian Plains.

By topic

Religion

* Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar, writer and enlightener of the

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, dies. He is regarded as the first bishop of the

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and the founder of the first Slavic Literary School. Clement is buried in his monastery, Saint Panteleimon, in Ohrid (modern North Macedonia).

Births

* June 22 – Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir (d.

967 Year 967 ( CMLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Emperor Otto I (the Great) calls for a council at Rome, to present the ne ...

) * Theodoric I, German nobleman (approximate date) * Yuan Zong, emperor of Southern Tang (d. 961)

Deaths

* March 27 – Alduin I, Frankish nobleman * May 25 – Flann Sinna, king of Meath * Anarawd ap Rhodri, king of

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Bencion Bencion (in Catalan and Spanish, ''Benció'') (died 916) was the count of Empúries and Rosselló from 915 to his death. He was the son of Sunyer II of Empúries, whom he succeeded. He married Godlana, daughter of Miro the Elder of Conflent ...

, Frankish nobleman * Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar *

Ge Congzhou Ge Congzhou () (died 916Glen Dudbridge (2013). ''A Portrait of Five Dynasties China: From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu (880-956)''. Oxford University Press. p. 98.), courtesy name Tongmei (), formally the Prince of Chenliu (), was a general serving und ...

, Chinese general * Mór ingen Cearbhaill, queen of Laigin * Tighearnach ua Cleirigh, king of Aidhne * Theodora, Roman politician * Theodoric I, bishop of Paderborn *

Ziyadat Allah III Abu Mudhar Ziyadat Allah III ( ar, أبو مضر زيادة الله الثالث) (died 911–916) was the eleventh and last Emir of the Aghlabids in Ifriqiya (903–909). He came to power after the murder of his father Abdallah II on 27 Jul ...

, Aghlabid emir

References

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