902

Calendar overview 902

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902
With the city of Taormina, the Saracens conquer one of the last Byzantine bases in Sicily .
902 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	350/351 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	894/895
Buddhist calendar	1445/46 (southern Buddhism); 1444/45 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	59th (60th) cycle Year of the Water Dog壬戌 ( at the beginning of the year metal rooster 辛酉)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	264/265 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	280/281
Islamic calendar	289/290 (turn of the year 4th / 5th December)
Jewish calendar	4662/63 (September 5-6)
Coptic calendar	618/619
Malayalam calendar	77/78
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MDCLV (1655) Diocletian's era : 618/619 (turn of the year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1212/13 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1213/14 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	940
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	958/959 (turn of the year April)

Events

August 1st : Islam in Italy : The Aghlabid Emir Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm II conquers Taormina with his army . The last great base of the Byzantine Empire on Sicily and its further influence on the island are lost. Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm II himself was forced to abdicate in the same year because of his tyrannical rule, which led to uprisings in the population, by his son Abu l-Abbas Abdallah II and died on October 23rd in front of Cosenza of dysentery. Abu l-Abbas Abdallah II leads a campaign against the Kutāma Berbers under Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Shīʿī , but suffers a defeat.
The Moors under General El Jaulani conquer Mallorca for the emirate of Córdoba . He then became the first Islamic governor in the city of Palma, now known as Medina Mayurka .

In the course of the Babenberg feud, the Konradines besieged the Babenburg , today's Bamberg , which is mentioned for the first time, and beat the Franconian Babenbergers hard.

Gamshurst has its first documentary mention.
Wadgassen (Wadegozinga, Wadegozzinga) is first mentioned in a document from King Ludwig the child .

As the successor to Drogo , who died on June 5, Adalbert becomes Bishop of Minden .