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915 CE

The Magyars (Hungarians), led by Zoltán, only son of the late Grand Prince Árpád, attack Swabia, Franconia and Saxony. Small units penetrate as far as Bremen, burning the city. John X crowns the Italian sovereign Berengar I as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. Berengar returns to northern Italy, where Friuli is threatened by the Hungarians. Summer – Battle of Garigliano: The Christian League, personally led by Pope John X, lays siege to Garigliano (a fortified Arab camp in the area of Minturno), which is blockaded from the sea by the Byzantine navy. After three months of siege, plagued by hunger, the Saracens decide to break out of Garigliano and find their way back to Sicily by any means possible. Christian hunting parties fall on the fleeing Arabs, and all are captured and executed.

Conflict & Security

  • July – The Magyars (Hungarians), led by Zoltán, only son of the late Grand Prince Árpád, attack Swabia, Franconia and Saxony. Small units penetrate as far as Bremen, burning the city.source
  • Summer – Battle of Garigliano: The Christian League, personally led by Pope John X, lays siege to Garigliano (a fortified Arab camp in the area of Minturno), which is blockaded from the sea by the Byzantine navy. After three months of siege, plagued by hunger, the Saracens decide to break out of Garigliano and find their way back to Sicily by any means possible. Christian hunting parties fall on the fleeing Arabs, and all are captured and executed.source

Religion & Belief

  • December 3 – John X crowns the Italian sovereign Berengar I as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. Berengar returns to northern Italy, where Friuli is threatened by the Hungarians.source

Births

  • January 13 – Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (d. 976)source
  • Burchard III, Frankish nobleman (d. 973)source
  • Boleslaus I, duke of Bohemia (approximate date)source
  • Sunifred II, Frankish nobleman (d. 968)source
  • Al-Mutanabbi, Muslim poet (d. 965)source
  • Abu Shakur Balkhi, Persian poetsource
  • William III, Frankish nobleman (d. 963)source
  • Adalbert I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)source
  • Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Jewish diplomat (d. 970)source

Deaths

  • April 23 – Yang Shihou, Chinese generalsource
  • November 4 – Zhang, Chinese empress (b. 892)source
  • Bi'dah al-Kabirah, was a songstress, and had been a slave of Arib. She died on 10 July 915. Abu Bakr ibn al-Muhtadi led the funeral prayers. She was also concubine of Abbasid caliph Al-Mamūn (r. 813–833)source
  • Domnall mac Áeda, king of Ailech (Ireland)source
  • Al-Nasa'i, Muslim scholar and hadith compilersource
  • Abu Salih Mansur, Samanid governorsource
  • Tuotilo, German composer (approximate date)source
  • Bertila of Spoleto, queen of Italysource
  • Leoluca, Sicilian abbot (approximate date)source
  • Cutheard, bishop of Lindisfarnesource
  • Gonzalo Fernandez, count of Castilesource