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900
From Encyclopedia Jr, free information reference for Kids
- This article is about the year 900. For other uses, see 900 (number).
| 900 by topic |
| Politics |
| State leaders - Sovereign states |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
900 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
900
CM |
| Ab urbe condita |
1653 |
| Armenian calendar |
349
ԹՎ ՅԽԹ |
| Chinese calendar |
3596 – 3597
己未 – 庚申 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
892 – 893 |
| Hebrew calendar |
4660 – 4661 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
955 – 956 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
822 – 823 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4001 – 4002 |
| Iranian calendar |
278 – 279 |
| Islamic calendar |
287 – 288 |
Events
- Persian scientist, Rhazes, distinguished smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintained "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".
- Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of Hubaekje in southwestern Korea.
- Merchants from southwest Asia and India settle on the east-African coast, trading gold, beads and metal for ivory and slaves.
- Harald Fairhair of the Yngling or Scilfing dynasty subdues the petty kings of Norway and conquers the Orkney and Shetland islands.
- February - Pope Benedict IV succeeds Pope John IX as the 117th pope.
Births
- Abu Jafar Khazeni, Persian astronomer and mathematician
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
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