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883 CE

Yazaman al-Khadim, Abbasid governor of Tarsus, routs a Byzantine army under general Kesta Styppiotes, in a night attack. According to Arab chroniclers, 70,000 out of 100,000 Byzantine troops are killed. The Zanj Rebellion: Abbasid general Al-Muwaffaq brings in Egyptian forces, to help him in his two-year siege of the Zanj capital Mukhtara. He captures the city, and crushes the revolt that has devastated Chaldea (modern Iraq) since 869. Svatopluk I, ruler (knyaz) of Great Moravia, conquers Lower Pannonia (today's Southwestern Hungary and Northern Croatia), during the succession strife in the East Frankish Kingdom (approximate date).

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • Svatopluk I, ruler (knyaz) of Great Moravia, conquers Lower Pannonia (today's Southwestern Hungary and Northern Croatia), during the succession strife in the East Frankish Kingdom (approximate date).source

Conflict & Security

  • September 11 – Yazaman al-Khadim, Abbasid governor of Tarsus, routs a Byzantine army under general Kesta Styppiotes, in a night attack. According to Arab chroniclers, 70,000 out of 100,000 Byzantine troops are killed.source
  • The Zanj Rebellion: Abbasid general Al-Muwaffaq brings in Egyptian forces, to help him in his two-year siege of the Zanj capital Mukhtara. He captures the city, and crushes the revolt that has devastated Chaldea (modern Iraq) since 869.source
  • King Charles the Fat travels to Nonantola (Northern Italy), where he meets Pope Marinus I. He receives complaints of Guy II of Spoleto, who is the official "protector" of Rome, and invades the Papal States. King Charles orders Guy to appear before a tribunal.source

Religion & Belief

  • Spring – Viking raiders ravage Flanders, and sack the abbey at Saint-Quentin. King Carloman II blocks their passage at Laviers, which had been on the banks of the Somme. Meanwhile, Vikings enter the Rhine, but are turned back by Henry of Franconia (possibly a margrave of Saxony). They over-winter at Duisburg.source

Technology & Infrastructure

  • The first historic document (written by Regino of Prüm) mentions Duisburg.source

Health & Medicine

  • Guy II of Spoleto begins a revolt, and assembles an army supported with Arab auxiliaries. King Charles the Fat sends Berengar of Friuli with an expeditionary force to deprive him of Spoleto. An epidemic ravages Berengar's army, and forces them to retire.source

Births

  • Zhao Jiliang, chancellor of Later Shu (d. 946)source
  • Zhao Tingyin, Chinese general (d. 949)source
  • Ibn Masarra, Muslim ascetic and scholar (d. 931)source
  • Burchard II, duke of Swabia (or 884)source

Deaths

  • September 11 – Kesta Styppiotes, Byzantine generalsource
  • Eochocán mac Áedo, king of Ulaid (Ireland)source
  • Wang Jingchong, Chinese governor (b. 847)source
  • Dawud al-Zahiri, Muslim scholar (or 884)source
  • Yang Fuguang, Chinese general (b. 842)source
  • Anselm of Farfa, Frankish abbot (approximate date)source
  • Ignatius II, patriarch of Antiochsource
  • Ansegisus, archbishop of Sens (or 879)source
  • Bertharius, Benedictine abbot and poetsource