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Year of the Metal Monkey庚申(at the beginning of Earth Sheep己未)

Era of Diocletian: 616/617 ( year November )

Syria: 1211/12 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • Louis the Child is selected in Forchheim king of Ostfrankenreichs.
  • Louis the Blind becomes King of Italy.
  • After the death of Donald II is his cousin Constantine II, King of Scotland.

Ersturkundliche mentions

Asia

  • The Saffarids under Amr ibn Laith subject to the Samanids under Ismail I in the battle and lose Khorasan.

America

  • 900: Fall of the city of Tikal

Religion

  • After the death of John IX. Benedict IV is chosen as the new Pope.

Born

  • 900: Adaldag, Bishop of Schleswig and Archbishop of Hamburg ( † 988 )
  • 900: Gero, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark († 965 )
  • 900: Gero of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne ( † 976 )
  • 900: Ramiro II the Great, King of León ( † 951)

Died

  • Donald II, King of Scotland
  • Galderic, Catalan saint (c. 830)
  • John IX. , Pope
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