905

:'' This article is about the year A.D. 905. For other uses of the term, see 905 (disambiguation).''
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Events

By Place

Africa

Asia

Europe

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Africa

★ Abbasid Caliphate re-establishes control of Egypt from the Tulunids.

Asia

★ Under the imperial order of Emperor Daigo, four poets are selected to compile the Kokin Wakashū, an anthology of poetry.

★ Himerius, the Logothete of the Drome, wins a victory over the Arab fleet in the Aegean Sea.

★ Zhu Wen killed most of the Tang Dynasty imperial family

★ Abaoji of the Khitan swears brotherhood with Shatuo Turk Li Keyong

Europe

★ Berengar of Friuli succeeds Louis the Blind as King of Italy.

★ Naum of Preslav founds a monastery at Lake Ohrid.

★ Sancho I of Pamplona succeeds Fortun I of Pamplona as the King of Pamplona and creates a Basque kingdom centered in Navarre.

Births

★ Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (d. 959)

Deaths

★ Ealhswith, queen consort and wife of Alfred the Great, the self-styled first King of England