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Calendar overview 918
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| 918 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 366/367 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 910/911 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1461/62 (southern Buddhism); 1460/61 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 60th (61st) cycle
Year of the Earth Tiger戊寅 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Ox 丁丑) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 280/281 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 296/297 |
| Islamic calendar | 305/306 (turn of the year June 13/14) |
| Jewish calendar | 4678/79 (9/10 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 634/635 |
| Malayalam calendar | 93/94 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDCLXXI (1671)
Diocletian's era : 634/635 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1228/29 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1229/30 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 956 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 974/975 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Eastern Franconia
- Traditional date for the beginning of the High Middle Ages in German imperial history
- King Conrad I of the East Franks dies in his ancestral castle in Weilburg on Dec. 23 to an injury that he spent two years previously on an unsuccessful campaign against the rebellious Duke Arnulf I the evil of Bavaria has contracted. He is buried in the Fulda monastery. Before his death, according to the historian Widukind von Corvey , he asked his brother Eberhard to propose the royal dignity to his great opponent, Duke Heinrich I of Saxony .
Western Europe
- Count Baldwin II , the bald one, of Flanders , who through his wife Elftrud of Wessex had established close ties with England , dies. He is followed by his son Arnulf .
- King Constantine II of Scotland , in league with the English, defeats the Danes in Northumbria near Corbridge-on-Tyne.
- Battle of Talavera, Abd ar-Rahman III. defeated a Christian army.
Eastern Europe
- Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria leads another campaign against the Byzantine Empire and invades Greece .
Asia
- King Taejo , founded the Korean Goryeo Empire and the Goryeo Dynasty as King Wang Geon .
religion
- Dracholf , Bishop of Freising , becomes abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach after Ebbo's death on August 11th .
- 918/ 919 : Tsar Simeon I the Great proclaiming autocephaly (independence) of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and raises it to the Patriarchal Church .
Born
- Abū Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn ʿAlī Ibn Bābawaih , Islamic scholar of the Twelve Shia († 991 )
Died
Date of death secured
- July 6th : William I , Count of Auvergne and Duke of Aquitaine
- August 11 : Ebbo , abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach
- September 10 : Baldwin II , count and margrave of Flanders (* around 863 )
- December 23 : Konrad I , King of Eastern France (* 881 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Ethelfleda , ruler of Mercien, daughter of King Alfred the Great (* around 872 )
Died around 918
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