Calendar year
The Bulgarians rout the Byzantine army at Boulgarophygon (from the Madrid Skylitzes ) Year 896 (DCCCXCVI leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
February – King Arnulf of Carinthia invades Italy at the head of an East Frankish expeditionary army. He storms Rome (the Leonine City ), and has himself crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Formosus at St. Peter's . Arnulf sets out to establish his authority in Spoleto , but suffers a stroke ; he is forced to call off the campaign, and returns to Bavaria .March – King Lambert II proceeds to re-conquer Italy. Heading north, he captures western Lombardy , and decapitates count Maginulf of Milan. In the meantime, the deposed king Berengar I recovers Verona (March of Friuli ) from Arnulf's candidate, count Walfred of Verona , who dies in office with "great fidelity to the emperor".[ 1] Battle of Southern Buh : Bulgarian forces under Simeon I ('the Great') defeat the Magyars , near the banks of the Southern Buh river (modern Ukraine ). The Magyars withdraw from Bulgaria , and are forced to migrate to new pastures . Led by Árpád , they settle in the Carpathian Basin (modern Hungary ).[ 2] Summer – Battle of Boulgarophygon : Simeon I invades the Theme of Thrace (in the southeastern Balkans ). The Byzantines transfer a new army to Europe , to deal with the Bulgarian threat. The armies clash at Boulgarophygon (modern Turkey ); the Byzantines are completely destroyed in battle.[ 3]
November – Lambert II and Berengar I agree to sign a treaty at Pavia . Berengar receives the realm between the Adda and the Po , while the rest stays under the control of Lambert (including the March of Tuscany ). They share Bergamo , and Lambert pledges to marry Gisela, Berengar's daughter.[ 4] Prince Klonimir , pretender to the throne of the Serbian Principality , is defeated by his ruling cousin, Petar . He is recognized as sole ruler of Serbia by Simeon I, resulting in a 20-year peace and alliance (approximate date).[ 5]
Britain
Arabian Empire
China
By topic
Religion
Births
Deaths
January 18 – Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun , ruler of the Tulunid Dynasty (b. 864 )April 4 – Formosus , pope of the Catholic Church April – Boniface VI , pope of the Catholic Church
May 17 – Liu Jianfeng , Chinese warlord June 1 – Theodosius Romanus , Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch July 3 – Dong Chang , Chinese warlordAbu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh , Muslim emir Abu Hanifa Dinawari , Muslim botanist and geographer (b. 815 )Adarnase III , Georgian princeAnselm II , archbishop of Milan Berengar II , Frankish nobleman Cui Zhaowei , chancellor of the Tang Dynasty Flann mac Lonáin , Irish poetGerolf of Holland , count of Friesland (or 895 )Ibn al-Rumi , Muslim poet (b. 836 )Klonimir , Serbian prince (approximate date)Miro the Elder , count of Conflent (Spain )Rafi ibn Harthama , ruler of Greater Khorasan Rustam I , ruler of the Bavand Dynasty (Iran )Sahl al-Tustari , Persian scholar (approximate date)Sitriuc mac Ímair , king of Dublin Walfred of Friuli , Lombard nobleman
References
^ Reuter, Timothy (trans.) The Annals of Fulda Archived February 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1991) [1983]. The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century ISBN 0-472-08149-7 ^ Kazhdan, Alexander , ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ISBN 0-19-504652-8 ^ Sismondi, History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages , p. 24.
^ Fine 1991, p. 141.
^ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great , p. 139. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5 .
^ Kennedy, Hugh N. (1993). "al-Muʿtaḍid Bi'llāh" Bosworth, C. E. ; van Donzel, E. ; Heinrichs, W. P. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition . Mif–Naz . Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 759– 760. ISBN 978-90-04-09419-2
