900

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Millennium: 1st millennium Centuries: 8th century – 9th century – 10th century Decades: 870s  880s  890s  – 900s –  910s  920s  930s Years: 897 898 899 – 900 – 901 902 903

The eastern hemisphere in 900

900 by topic v · d · e Politics State leaders – Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishment and disestablishment categories Establishments – Disestablishments 900 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 900 CM Ab urbe condita 1653 Armenian calendar 349 ԹՎ ՅԽԹ Bahá'í calendar -944 – -943 Bengali calendar 307 Berber calendar 1850 Buddhist calendar 1444 Burmese calendar 262 Byzantine calendar 6408 – 6409 Chinese calendar 己未年十一月廿六日 (3536/3596-11-26) — to — 庚申年十二月初七日 (3537/3597-12-7) Coptic calendar 616 – 617 Ethiopian calendar 892 – 893 Hebrew calendar 4660 – 4661 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 956 – 957  - Shaka Samvat 822 – 823  - Kali Yuga 4001 – 4002 Holocene calendar 10900 Iranian calendar 278 – 279 Islamic calendar 286 – 288 Japanese calendar Korean calendar 3233 Thai solar calendar 1443 v · d · e

Year 900 (CM) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] America

• Postclassic period starts in Mesoamerica.

[edit] Asia

• Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of Hubaekje in southwestern Korea.
• April 21—Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon by the Datu of Tondo, as represented Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pila, which released them of all their debts as inscribed in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Philippines.

[edit] Europe

• Harald Fairhair (of the Yngling or Scilfing Dynasty) subdues the petty kings of Norway and conquers the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Art

• c. 900–1230—Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, is built. Anasazi culture.

[edit] Religion

• February—Pope Benedict IV succeeds Pope John IX as the 117th pope.

[edit] Medicine

• The Persian scientist Rhazes distinguishes smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintains "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".

[edit] Births

• Abu Jafar Khazeni, Persian astronomer and mathematician

[edit] Deaths

• August 13—Zwentibold, last King of Lotharingia (b. 870)
• Domnall II, King of the Picts
• Fulk the Venerable, Archbishop of Rheims (assassinated by Count Baldwin II of Flanders)