904

Calendar overview 904

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904
The Saracens conquer Thessaloniki .
904 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	352/353 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	896/897
Buddhist calendar	1447/48 (southern Buddhism); 1446/47 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	59./60. (60./61.) Cycle Year of the Wood Rat甲子 ( at the beginning of the year Water Pig 癸亥)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	266/267 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	282/283
Islamic calendar	291/292 (turn of the year 12/13 November)
Jewish calendar	4664/65 (September 12-13)
Coptic calendar	620/621
Malayalam calendar	79/80
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MDCLVII (1657) Diocletian's era : 620/621 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1214/15 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1215/16 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	942
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	960/961 (turn of the year April)

Events

Pope Sergius III

January 29 : Sergius III. becomes Pope after he has imprisoned the antipope Christophorus . With him the time of the so-called pornocracy begins .
July 29th : Thessaloniki is conquered by the Saracens . The looting of the city dragged on for weeks.
King Constantine II of Scotland inflicts a crushing defeat on Scandinavian invaders near Scone .
Second conquest of Malta by the Arabs .

December 30th : Abu l-Manaqib Shaiban Ahmad ibn Tulun becomes ruler of the Tulunids in Egypt . He succeeds his nephew Harun , who was killed in a military revolt.

Mention of the city of Mettmann in a document from the Carolingian King Ludwig IV under the name Medamana
Eglingen , Volketswil and Zwiefalten are first mentioned in a document.

Æthelweard , English king († 924 )
Gagik I , Armenian prince († 937 )
Muhammad bin Yusuf al-Warraq , Andalusian historian and geographer († 973 / 974 )