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Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	890s 900s 910s 920s 930s
Years:	913 914 915 916 917 918 919

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916 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	916 CMXVI
Ab urbe condita	1669
Armenian calendar	365 ԹՎ ՅԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	5666
Balinese saka calendar	837–838
Bengali calendar	323
Berber calendar	1866
Buddhist calendar	1460
Burmese calendar	278
Byzantine calendar	6424–6425
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3613 or 3406 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3614 or 3407
Coptic calendar	632–633
Discordian calendar	2082
Ethiopian calendar	908–909
Hebrew calendar	4676–4677
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	972–973
- Shaka Samvat	837–838
- Kali Yuga	4016–4017
Holocene calendar	10916
Iranian calendar	294–295
Islamic calendar	303–304
Japanese calendar	Engi16 (延喜16年)
Javanese calendar	815–816
Julian calendar	916 CMXVI
Korean calendar	3249
Minguo calendar	996 before ROC 民前996年
Nanakshahi calendar	−552
Seleucid era	1227/1228 AG
Thai solar calendar	1458–1459
Tibetan calendar	阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1042 or 661 or −111 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1043 or 662 or −110

MosaicofClement of Ohrid (ca. 840–916)

Year 916 (CMXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

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Sicilian BerbersinAgrigento revolt and depose the independent Emir Ahmed ibn Khorob. They offer Sicily to the Fatimid CaliphateinIfriqiya (modern Tunisia). Caliph Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah welcomes this turn of events, but refuses to grant the Berber rulers their autonomy. He sends a Fatimid expeditionary force under Abu Said Musa which lands in Sicily and, with some difficulty, takes control of the island. Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah appoints Salam ibn Rashid as the emir of Sicily. Ahmed ibn Khorob is dispatched to Raqqada and executed.^[1]

Britain

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Lady Æthelflæd, daughter of the late King Alfred the Great and the widow of Earl Æthelred of Mercia, sends an army into Brycheiniog to avenge the murder of the Mercian abbot Ecbryht and his companions. They seize and burn the royal fort of King Tewdr of Brycheiniog at Llangorse Lake (Wales), and take the queen and thirty-three others captive.^[2]

Asia

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Abaoji, Khitan ruler and founder of the Liao Dynasty, adopts Chinese court formalities in which he declares himself emperor in the Chinese style and adopts an era name, Taizu of Liao. He names his eldest son Yelü Bei as heir apparent, a first in the history of the Khitan. Abaoji leads a campaign in the west, conquering much of the Mongolian Plains.^[3]

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Religion

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Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs, dies. He is regarded as the first bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the founder of the first Slavic Literary School. Clement is buried in his monastery, Saint Panteleimon, in Ohrid (modern North Macedonia).

Births

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June 22 – Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir (d. 967)
Theodoric I, German nobleman (approximate date)
Yuan Zong, emperor of Southern Tang (d. 961)

Deaths

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March 27 – Alduin I, Frankish nobleman
May 25 – Flann Sinna, king of Meath
Anarawd ap Rhodri, king of Gwynedd
Bencion, Frankish nobleman
Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar
Ge Congzhou, Chinese general
Mór ingen Cearbhaill, queen of Laigin
Tighearnach ua Cleirigh, king of Aidhne
Theodora, Roman politician
Theodoric I, bishop of Paderborn
Ziyadat Allah III, Aghlabid emir

References

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^ Italian History: Timeline - Lombard Leagues Board history-timeline?page=10.

^ Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2013). Wales and the Britons 350–1064. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 505. ISBN 978-0-19-821731-2.

^ Mote, F. W. (2003). Imperial China: 900–1800. Harvard University Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-0674012127.

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