904
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 9th century · 10th century · 11th century |
Decades: | 870s · 880s · 890s · 900s · 910s · 920s · 930s |
Years: | 901 · 902 · 903 · 904 · 905 · 906 · 907 |
904 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 904 CMIV |
Ab urbe condita | 1657 |
Armenian calendar | 353 ԹՎ ՅԾԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 5654 |
Bengali calendar | 311 |
Berber calendar | 1854 |
Buddhist calendar | 1448 |
Burmese calendar | 266 |
Byzantine calendar | 6412–6413 |
Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3600 or 3540 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3601 or 3541 |
Coptic calendar | 620–621 |
Discordian calendar | 2070 |
Ethiopian calendar | 896–897 |
Hebrew calendar | 4664–4665 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 960–961 |
- Shaka Samvat | 825–826 |
- Kali Yuga | 4004–4005 |
Holocene calendar | 10904 |
Iranian calendar | 282–283 |
Islamic calendar | 291–292 |
Japanese calendar | Engi 4 (延喜4年) |
Javanese calendar | 803–804 |
Julian calendar | 904 CMIV |
Korean calendar | 3237 |
Minguo calendar | 1008 before ROC 民前1008年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −564 |
Seleucid era | 1215/1216 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1446–1447 |
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Year 904 (CMIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- The Byzantines under Andronikos Doukas defeat the Arab garrisons of Mopsuestia and Tarsos near Marash.
- Chang'an, the capital of Tang dynasty China and the largest city in the ancient world, is destroyed.
- September 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of Tang dynasty China, after seizing control of the imperial government.
- The Abbasids invade the Tulunid emirate of Egypt.
Europe
- July 29 &ndash
- Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
- The Bavarians kill an important leader (gyula or horka) of the Hungarian tribal confederation, Kurszán in an ambush.
- In Portugal, for the third time in less than 30 years, the Christians take control of Coimbra, this time for almost a century.[1]
By topic
Religion
- January 29 – Pope Sergius III succeeds Pope Leo V and the deposed Antipope Christopher (both of whom are murdered or exiled) as the 119th pope; he begins the era of the Pornocracy.
Births
- June 30 – Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou
Deaths
- January – Antipope Christopher the antipope
- 13 February – Yahya ibn Zikrawayh, Qarmatian leader
- October – Al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah, Abbasid vizier
- Zhaozong, 19th emperor of the Tang dynasty
- Erenfried I of Maasgau, Count of Bliesgau, Keldachgau and Bonngau and Count of Charmois
- Du Xunhe, Chinese poet
- Llywarch ap Hyfaidd. King of Dyfed, Wales
- Ki no Tomonori, early Heian waka poet
- Kurszán, partner ruler of the Magyars beside Árpád
- Harun ibn Khumarawayh, fourth Emir of the Tulunids
- Yahya ibn Al-Qassim, eighth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
- Zhang Jun, Tang dynasty chancellor
- Lady Zhang, wife of Zhu Quanzhong
References
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