904

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Year 904 (CMIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• The Byzantines under Andronikos Doukas defeat the Arabs near Germanikeia
• Chang'an, the capital of Tang Dynasty China and the largest city in the ancient world, is destroyed.
• The Abbasids invade the Tulunid emirate of Egypt.

Europe

• July 29 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
• In Portugal, for the third time in less than 30 years, the Christians take control of Coimbra, this time for almost a century.^[1]

By topic

Religion

• January 29 – Pope Sergius III succeeds Pope Leo V as the 119th pope; he begins the era of the Pornocracy.

Births

• June 30 – Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou
• Ælfweard of Wessex, second son of Edward the Elder

Deaths

• January – Christopher the antipope
• Zhaozong, 19th emperor of the Tang Dynasty
• Erenfried I of Maasgau, Count of Bliesgau, Keldachgau and Bonngau and Count of Charmois
• Du Xunhe, Chinese poet
• Llywarch ap Hyfaidd. King of Dyfed, Wales
• Ki no Tomonori, early Heian waka poet
• Kurszán, partner ruler of the Magyars beside beside Árpád
• Harun of Tulunids, fourth Emir of the Tulunids
• Yahya ibn Al-Qassim, eighth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
• Zhang Jun, Tang Dynasty chancellor
• Lady Zhang, wife of Zhu Quanzhong

References