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933 CE

Battle of Merseburg: King Henry I ("the Fowler") defeats the Magyars near Merseburg after his refusal to pay the annual tribute. During Henry's lifetime they never raid the East Frankish Kingdom again. Fatimid forces fail to seize the Maghreb al-Aqsa (modern Morocco) from the local Berber tribes allied to the Iberia-based Caliphate of Córdoba. Prince Edwin, the youngest son of the late King Edward the Elder, is drowned en route to the West Frankish Kingdom and buried at Saint-Bertin.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • William I ("Longsword"), duke of Normandy, recognises King Rudolph as his overlord. In turn he gives William the Cotentin Peninsula and the Channel Islands.source

Conflict & Security

  • March 15 – Battle of Merseburg: King Henry I ("the Fowler") defeats the Magyars near Merseburg after his refusal to pay the annual tribute. During Henry's lifetime they never raid the East Frankish Kingdom again.source
  • Fatimid forces fail to seize the Maghreb al-Aqsa (modern Morocco) from the local Berber tribes allied to the Iberia-based Caliphate of Córdoba.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • Spring – Hugh of Provence, king of Italy, launches an expedition to Rome to remove the Roman ruler (princeps) Alberic II and avenge his humiliation (see 932). It fails, however, as Roman civic militias repel the Lombard army. Hugh ravages the Italian countryside, before he withdraws to Pavia.source

Disasters & Accidents

  • Prince Edwin, the youngest son of the late King Edward the Elder, is drowned en route to the West Frankish Kingdom and buried at Saint-Bertin.source

Births

  • Al-Hakim Nishapuri, Persian Sunni scholar (d. 1014)source

Deaths

  • March 10 – Li Renfu, Chinese warlord and governorsource
  • March 16 – Takin al-Khazari, Abbasid governor of Egyptsource
  • November 21 – Al-Tahawi, Arab imam and scholar (b. 853)source
  • December 9 – Li Congrong, prince of Later Tangsource
  • December 15 – Li Siyuan, emperor of Later Tang (b. 867)source
  • December 18 – Yaonian Yanmujin, Chinese empress dowagersource
  • Fujiwara no Kanesuke, Japanese nobleman (b. 877)source
  • Shaghab, mother and de facto co-ruler of Al-Muqtadirsource
  • Acfred II, count of Carcassonne and Razès (France)source
  • Du Guangting, Chinese Taoist priest and writer (b. 850)source
  • Alfonso IV, king of León and Galicia (Spain)source
  • Ibn Duraid, Arab poet and philologist (b. 837)source
  • Mu'nis al-Muzaffar, Abbasid generalsource
  • Tryphon, patriarch of Constantinoplesource