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Calendar overview 889
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| 889 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 337/338 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 881/882 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1432/33 (southern Buddhism); 1431/32 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 59th (60th) cycle
Year of the Earth-Rooster己酉 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Monkey 戊申) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 251/252 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 267/268 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 275/276 (May 5-6) |
| Jewish calendar | 4649/50 (August 29/30) |
| Coptic calendar | 605/606 |
| Malayalam calendar | 64/65 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MDCXLII (1642)
Diocletian's era : 605/606 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1199/1200 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1200/01 (New Year October) |
| Spanish era | 927 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 945/946 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Central Europe
- Beginning of the year: Guido von Spoleto defeats Berengar I near Trebbia. He is then elected King of Italy in February .
- Sunderold becomes Archbishop of Mainz and Arch Chancellor of the Franconian Empire . In this office he succeeds Liutbert , who died on February 17th .
- Pietro Tribuno becomes 17th Doge of Venice around two years after the death of his predecessor Pietro I. Candiano .
- With Count Eberhard I, the Eberhardingen in Zürichgau were first mentioned.
British Islands
- Donald II defeats his uncle Giric in battle and then sends his co-regent Eochaid into exile. Then he is crowned the new Scottish King from the House of Alpin .
Asia
First documentary mentions
- Bad Dürrheim , Donaueschingen , Gachnang , Langrickenbach , Lippramsdorf , Reken , Wigoltingen and Wulften am Harz are first mentioned in a document
religion
- Hermann I succeeds Willibert , who died on September 11th, as Archbishop of Cologne .
Born
- Abd ar-Rahman III. , eighth emir and first caliph of Cordoba († 961 )
Died
Date of death secured
- February 17th : Liutbert , Abbot of Herrieden Monastery and Archbishop of Mainz
- September 11th : Willibert , Archbishop of Cologne
- October 29 : Baqī ibn Machlad , Islamic hadith scholar and Koran exegete in the Umayyad Empire (* 817 )
- December 23 : Solomon II , Bishop of Constance
Exact date of death unknown
- Giric , King of Scotland
- Ibn Marwan , Moorish ruler in Andalusia and rebel against the Umayyad emir Muhammad I of Cordoba
- Ibn Qutaiba , Sunni scholar in the Abbasid Empire (* around 828 )
Died around 889
- 889 or 895 ; ad-Dīnawarī , Kurdish botanist, historian, geographer, astronomer and mathematician in the Persian Empire (* 828 )