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906
The Moravian Empire under Mojmir II is defeated and smashed by the Hungarians .
906 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	354/355 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	898/899
Buddhist calendar	1449/50 (southern Buddhism); 1448/49 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	60th (61st) cycle Year of the fire tiger丙寅 ( at the beginning of the year wood buffalo 乙丑)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	268/269 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	284/285
Islamic calendar	293/294 (turn of the year 21/22 October)
Jewish calendar	4666/67 (September 21/22)
Coptic calendar	622/623
Malayalam calendar	81/82
Roman calendar	from urbe condita MDCLIX (1659) Diocletian's era : 622/623 (November turn of the year)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1216/17 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1217/18 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	944
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	962/963 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Central Europe

Foundations of a Great Moravian castle

• Hungarian invasions : The Great Moravian Empire defeats the Hungarians in several battles, in which the Moravian ruler Mojmír II is killed.
• Babenberg feud : Adalbert von Babenberg attacks the Konradines near Fritzlar. In the battle Konrad the Elder falls , whose son Konrad the Younger follows his father as margrave. Adalbert is arrested and beheaded for breach of the peace.

Byzantine Empire

• January 6th : The Byzantine Emperor Leo VI. marries Zoe Karbonopsina , the mother of his son Konstantin , in her fourth marriage . This leads to the tetragamy dispute with Nicholas I , the Patriarch of Constantinople .

North africa

• The Aghlabids under Ziyadat Allah III. lead a second unsuccessful campaign against the neighboring Kutāma Berber under Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Shīʿī .

Asia

• Tannet becomes ruler of the Burmese kingdom of Bagan .

economy

• around 906: Raffelstetten customs regulations

religion

• Utto becomes Bishop of Freising as the successor to Waldo , who died on May 18th .

Born

• Abu Tahir , second leader of the Qarmatians in al-Hasa and Bahrain († 944 )

Died

• February 27th : Konrad the Elder , Margrave of Thuringia
• May 18 : Waldo , Bishop of Freising (* around 852 )
• August 17th : Wicburg , Abbess of Essen Abbey
• 0September 9th : Adalbert von Babenberg , Franconian nobleman (* 854 )
• Hoger , Abbot of Werden and Helmstedt