915

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	890s 900s 910s 920s 930s
Years:	912 913 914 915 916 917 918

915 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	915 CMXV
Ab urbe condita	1668
Armenian calendar	364 ԹՎ ՅԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	5665
Balinese saka calendar	836–837
Bengali calendar	322
Berber calendar	1865
Buddhist calendar	1459
Burmese calendar	277
Byzantine calendar	6423–6424
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood  Dog) 3611 or 3551     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood  Pig) 3612 or 3552
Coptic calendar	631–632
Discordian calendar	2081
Ethiopian calendar	907–908
Hebrew calendar	4675–4676
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	971–972
- Shaka Samvat	836–837
- Kali Yuga	4015–4016
Holocene calendar	10915
Iranian calendar	293–294
Islamic calendar	302–303
Japanese calendar	Engi 15 (延喜１５年)
Javanese calendar	814–815
Julian calendar	915 CMXV
Korean calendar	3248
Minguo calendar	997 before ROC 民前997年
Nanakshahi calendar	−553
Seleucid era	1226/1227 AG
Thai solar calendar	1457–1458
Tibetan calendar	阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1041 or 660 or −112     — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1042 or 661 or −111

Year 915 ( CMXV ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – Battle of Garigliano: The Christian League, personally led by Pope John X, lays siege to Garigliano (a fortified Arab camp in the area of Minturno), which is blockaded from the sea by the Byzantine navy. After three months of siege, plagued by hunger, the Saracens decide to break out of Garigliano and find their way back to Sicily by any means possible. Christian hunting parties fall on the fleeing Arabs, and all are captured and executed. ^[1]
• July – The Magyars (Hungarians), led by Zoltán, only son of the late Grand Prince Árpád, attack Swabia, Franconia and Saxony. Small units penetrate as far as Bremen, burning the city.

By topic

Religion

• December 3 – John X crowns the Italian sovereign Berengar I as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. Berengar returns to northern Italy, where Friuli is threatened by the Hungarians.

Births

• January 13 – Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (d. 976)
• Abu Shakur Balkhi, Persian poet
• Adalbert I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
• Al-Mutanabbi, Muslim poet (d. 965)
• Boleslaus I, duke of Bohemia (approximate date)
• Burchard III, Frankish nobleman (d. 973)
• Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Jewish diplomat (d. 970)
• Sunifred II, Frankish nobleman (d. 968)
• William III, Frankish nobleman (d. 963)

Deaths

• April 23 – Yang Shihou, Chinese general
• November 4 – Zhang, Chinese empress (b. 892)
• Abu Salih Mansur, Samanid governor
• Adalbert II, Lombard nobleman
• Al-Nasa'i, Muslim scholar and hadith compiler
• Bi'dah al-Kabirah, was a songstress, and had been a slave of Arib. She died on 10 July 915. Abu Bakr ibn al-Muhtadi led the funeral prayers. ^[2] She was also concubine of Abbasid caliph Al-Mamūn (r. 813–833)
• Bertila of Spoleto, queen of Italy
• Cutheard, bishop of Lindisfarne
• Domnall mac Áeda, king of Ailech (Ireland)
• Gonzalo Fernandez, count of Castile
• Gregory IV, duke of Naples
• Jing Hao, Chinese painter
• Leoluca, Sicilian abbot (approximate date)
• Li Yanlu, Chinese warlord
• Ratbod, archbishop of Trier
• Reginar I, Frankish nobleman
• Regino of Prüm, German abbot
• Spytihněv I, duke of Bohemia
• Sunyer II, Frankish nobleman
• Tuotilo, German composer (approximate date)

References

1. Peter Partner (January 1, 1972). The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance (illustrated ed.). University of California Press. pp.  81-82. ISBN   9780520021815.
2. al-Sāʿī, Ibn; Toorawa, Shawkat M.; Bray, Julia (2017). كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء: Women and the Court of Baghdad. Library of Arabic Literature. NYU Press. pp. 20, 22. ISBN   978-1-4798-6679-3.