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Calendar overview 929

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Abd ar-Rahman III. elevates the emirate of Cordoba to a caliphate .
929 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	377/378 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	921/922
Buddhist calendar	1472/73 (southern Buddhism); 1471/72 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	60th (61st) cycle Year of the Earth- Ox 己丑 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Rat 戊子)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	291/292 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	307/308
Islamic calendar	316/317 (turn of the year 13/14 February)
Jewish calendar	4689/90 (September 6-7)
Coptic calendar	645/646
Malayalam calendar	104/105
Roman calendar	ab urbe condita MDCLXXXII (1682) Diocletian's era : 645/646 (New Year November)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1239/40 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1240/41 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	967
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	985/986 (turn of the year April)

Events

January 16 : Abd ar-Rahman III. , until then emir of Cordoba , takes on the title of caliph and transforms the empire on the Iberian peninsula into the caliphate of Cordoba . The Umayyad prince is responding to the claims of the competing Fatimids, among other things . It can also declare publicly that anyone else who the title of "Commander of the Faithful" ( Amīr al-Mu'minīn be) used by itself, a cheat, which he both the Fatimid Caliph al-Mahdi and the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir says .

King Heinrich I conquered Brandenburg an der Havel in January and founds Havelberg Castle . He marches against the Sorbs , conquers their Gana castle and founds the Misnia castle , around which the city of Meissen has developed over time . He moves on against the Bohemians and conquers Prague .
September 4th : Saxony under the equal commanders in chief Bernhard and Count Thietmar defeat a Slavic army from the Redarians in the Battle of Lenzen . According to Widukind von Corvey , the Elbe Slavs rebelled against their obligation to pay tribute to Eastern Franconia and destroyed Walsleben Castle in August , whereupon Heinrich I sent a Saxon army to Lenzen . Lenzen Castle is conquered, the residents enslaved. The prisoners from the battle are beheaded.

Otto I of Saxony, the 17-year-old son of King Heinrich I from his second marriage, is determined to be his successor in the "Quedlinburg House Rules". He marries Editha von Wessex , daughter of the Anglo-Saxon king Æthelstan .
Duke Wenceslas of Bohemia is forced to pay homage by King Heinrich I and takes the feudal oath .

The city of Duderstadt was first mentioned in a document on September 16.
Castle construction and expansion in Meißen , Quedlinburg , Hersfeld , Magdeburg

May: Stephan VII. Succeeds Leo VI, who died around the turn of the year . from the Roman Senatrix Marozia to Pope raised. His predecessor Johannes X , who had been deposed in the previous year and who was still alive at the time, was murdered a little later in the dungeon of Castel Sant'Angelo .

October 7th : Charles III. the simple-minded, King of the West Franconia (* 879 )

928 or 929: Leo VI. , Pope
September 28, 929 or 935 : Wenceslaus , Duke and national saint of Bohemia (* 908 )

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