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949 CE

Fujiwara no Tadahira, a politician and chancellor (kampaku), dies at his native Kyoto. Having governed Japan as regent under Emperor Suzaku since 930. The Fujiwara clan will continue to hold the regency until 1180, controlling the imperial government. Abd al-Rahman III the Caliph of Córdoba declares Jihad, preparing a large army & conquers the city of Lugo in the extreme North of Iberia. This raid shows to be one of the furthest raids Muslims in Spain ever conducted, done as a show of strength of the Muslim State in Al-Andalus. Arab-Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into the theme of Lykandos, but are defeated. The Byzantines counter-attack and seize Germanikeia, defeating an army from Tarsus, and raiding as far south as Antioch. General (strategos) Theophilos Kourkouas captures Theodosiopolis (modern-day Erzurum) after a 7-month siege.

Conflict & Security

  • Summer – The Hungarians defeat a Bavarian army at Laa (modern Austria).source
  • Arab-Byzantine War: Hamdanid forces under Sayf al-Dawla raid into the theme of Lykandos, but are defeated. The Byzantines counter-attack and seize Germanikeia, defeating an army from Tarsus, and raiding as far south as Antioch. General (strategos) Theophilos Kourkouas captures Theodosiopolis (modern-day Erzurum) after a 7-month siege.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • A Byzantine expeditionary force under Constantine Gongyles attempts to re-conquer the Emirate of Crete from the Saracens. The expedition ends in a disastrous failure; the Byzantine camp is destroyed in a surprise attack. Gongyles himself barely escapes on his flagship.source

Religion & Belief

  • Abd al-Rahman III the Caliph of Córdoba declares Jihad, preparing a large army & conquers the city of Lugo in the extreme North of Iberia. This raid shows to be one of the furthest raids Muslims in Spain ever conducted, done as a show of strength of the Muslim State in Al-Andalus.source

Crime & Justice

  • King Miroslav (or Miroslaus) is killed by Ban Pribina during a civil war started by his younger brother Michael Krešimir II, who succeeds him as ruler of Croatia.source

Births

  • Uma no Naishi, Japanese nobleman and waka poet (d. 1011)source
  • Ranna, Kannada poet (India) (approximate date)source
  • Symeon (the New Theologian), Byzantine monk and poet (d. 1022)source
  • Gebhard of Constance, German bishop (d. 995)source
  • Fujiwara no Nagatō, Japanese bureaucrat and poet (d. 1009)source
  • Mathilde, German abbess and granddaughter of Otto I (d. 1011)source
  • Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland (d. 1022)source

Deaths

  • June 1 – Godfrey, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)source
  • August 17 – Li Shouzhen, Chinese general and governorsource
  • September 14 – Fujiwara no Tadahira, Japanese statesman and regent (b. 880)source
  • September 14 – Fujiwara no Tadahira, a politician and chancellor (kampaku), dies at his native Kyoto. Having governed Japan as regent under Emperor Suzaku since 930. The Fujiwara clan will continue to hold the regency until 1180, controlling the imperial government.source
  • September/October – Abdallah ibn al-Mustakfi, Abbasid caliph (b. 905)source
  • December 2 – Odo of Wetterau, German noblemansource
  • December 10 – Herman I, duke of Swabiasource
  • December – Imad al-Dawla, founder of the Buyid dynasty (Iran)source
  • Yunmen Wenyan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monksource
  • Jeongjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (b. 923)source
  • Eadric, ealdorman of Wessex (approximate date)source
  • An, Chinese imperial consort (Five Dynasties)source
  • Xiao Han, general of the Khitan Liao dynastysource
  • Zhao Tingyin, general of Later Shu (b. 883)source