923

923 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	923 ; CMXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1676
Armenian calendar	372 ; ?? ???
Assyrian calendar	5673
Balinese saka calendar	844?845
Bengali calendar	330
Berber calendar	1873
Buddhist calendar	1467
Burmese calendar	285
Byzantine calendar	6431?6432
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse ) ; 3620 or 3413 ; ? to ? ; 癸未年 (Water Goat ) ; 3621 or 3414
Coptic calendar	639?640
Discordian calendar	2089
Ethiopian calendar	915?916
Hebrew calendar	4683?4684
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	979?980
- Shaka Samvat	844?845
- Kali Yuga	4023?4024
Holocene calendar	10923
Iranian calendar	301?302
Islamic calendar	310?311
Japanese calendar	Engi 23 / Ench? 1 ; (延長元年)
Javanese calendar	822?823
Julian calendar	923 ; CMXXIII
Korean calendar	3256
Minguo calendar	989 before ROC ; 民前989年
Nanakshahi calendar	?545
Seleucid era	1234/1235 AG
Thai solar calendar	1465?1466
Tibetan calendar	?水?年 ; (male Water- Horse ) ; 1049 or 668 or ?104 ; ? to ? ; ?水羊年 ; (female Water- Goat ) ; 1050 or 669 or ?103

Millennium :	1st millennium
Centuries :	9th century ; 10th century ; 11th century ;
Decades :	900s ; 910s ; 920s ; 930s ; 940s ;
Years :	920 ; 921 ; 922 ; 923 ; 924 ; 925 ; 926 ;

Year 923 ( CMXXIII ) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .

Events [ edit ]

June 15 – Battle of Soissons : King Robert I is killed; the Frankish army, led by Charles the Simple , is defeated and routed near Soissons . Charles is captured and imprisoned at Peronne . The nobles elect Robert's son-in-law Rudolph , duke of Burgundy , as king of the West Frankish Kingdom (until 936 ). ^[1]
July 29 – Battle of Fiorenzuola : Lombard forces led by King Rudolph II and Adalbert I , margrave of Ivrea , defeat the deposed Emperor Berengar I at Firenzuola ( Tuscany ). A pact is reached between Rudolph and Berengar, who abdicates the imperial throne and cedes sovereignty over the rest of Italy . ^[2]

May 13 – The Later Liang , one of the Five Dynasties in China , falls to Later Tang (founded by Li Cunxu ). Li proclaims himself emperor and moves his residence back to the old Tang capital of Luoyang .
August 11 – The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra . ^[3]

June 15 – Robert I , king of the West Frankish Kingdom (b. 860 )
August 2 – Plegmund , archbishop of Canterbury (or 914 )
August 27 – Ageltrude , queen of Italy and Holy Roman Empress
October 8 – Pilgrim I , archbishop of Salzburg
November 20
- Jing Xiang , Chinese strategist
- Li Zhen , official of Later Liang
Abu Bakr al-Khallal , Muslim scholar and jurist (b. 848 )
Adarnase IV , prince of Iberia / Kartli ( Georgia )
Badr al-Hammami ( the Elder ), Abbasid general
Gurgen I , prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
Harshavarman I , king of Angkor ( Cambodia )
Ibn Khuzaymah , Muslim hadith and scholar (b. 837 )
Ma Chuo , general and official of Wuyue (or 922 )
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari , Persian scholar (b. 839 )
Reccared , Galician clergyman (b. 885 )
Ricwin (or Ricuin ), Frankish nobleman
Walter (or Vaulter ), archbishop of Sens
Wang Yanzhang , general of Later Liang (b. 863 )
Zhao Yan , military prefect and official of Later Liang
Zhu Youzhen , emperor of Later Liang (b. 888 )

^ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III , p. 379. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8 .
^ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume III , p. 349. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8 .
^ Halm, Heinz (1991). Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden [ The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids ] (in German). Munich: C. H. Beck. p. 226. ISBN 978-3-406-35497-7 .