929

929 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	929; CMXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1682
Armenian calendar	378; ԹՎ ՅՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	5679
Balinese saka calendar	850–851
Bengali calendar	335–336
Berber calendar	1879
Buddhist calendar	1473
Burmese calendar	291
Byzantine calendar	6437–6438
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat); 3626 or 3419; — to —; 己丑年 (Earth Ox); 3627 or 3420
Coptic calendar	645–646
Discordian calendar	2095
Ethiopian calendar	921–922
Hebrew calendar	4689–4690
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	985–986
- Shaka Samvat	850–851
- Kali Yuga	4029–4030
Holocene calendar	10929
Iranian calendar	307–308
Islamic calendar	316–317
Japanese calendar	Enchō 7; (延長７年)
Javanese calendar	828–829
Julian calendar	929; CMXXIX
Korean calendar	3262
Minguo calendar	983 before ROC; 民前983年
Nanakshahi calendar	−539
Seleucid era	1240/1241 AG
Thai solar calendar	1471–1472
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་; (male Earth-Rat); 1055 or 674 or −98; — to —; ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་; (female Earth-Ox); 1056 or 675 or −97

Events

January 16 – Emir Abd al-Rahman III of Córdoba, Spain, proclaims himself caliph and creates the Caliphate of Córdoba. He breaks his allegiance to, and ties with, the Fatimid and Abbasid caliphs.^[1]
February 3 – Guy, Margrave of Tuscany, second husband (third lover) of the Roman noblewoman Marozia, dies. He is succeeded by his brother Lambert as margrave of Tuscany.
Early 929 – Siege of Gana: German king Henry the Fowler besieges Gana with an East Frankish army and conquers the stronghold. He establishes the fort of Meissen nearby.
Early 929 – Henry the Fowler invades Bohemia from the north and marches on Prague. Duke Arnulf I of Bavaria invades Bohemia from the south. The Bohemians capitulate.
Summer – The Slavic-Arab leader Sabir defeats a small Byzantine fleet and seizes Termoli (in Molise, on the Adriatic coast). He returns to Africa laden with booty and slaves.
September 4 – Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) are defeated by a Saxon army near the fortified stronghold of Lenzen (modern Germany).
October 7 – Charles the Simple, former king of West Francia, dies in prison at Péronne, leaving Rudolph with no opposition except that of Count Herbert II of Vermandois.

Mpu Sindok, ruler of the Mataram kingdom, moves his court from Central to East Java (modern Indonesia), probably after the eruption of Mount Merapi and/or invasion from Srivijaya.^[2]

Pope Leo VI dies at Rome after a 7-month reign. He is succeeded (probably handpicked–by Marozia from the Tusculani family) by Stephen VII as the 124th pope of the Catholic Church.

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