900
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This article is about year. For the number, see 900 (number). For the skateboarding trick, see 900 (skateboarding trick).
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 870s 880s 890s - 900s - 910s 920s 930s |
| Years: | 897 898 899 - 900 - 901 902 903 |
| 900 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 900 CM |
| Ab urbe condita | 1653 |
| Armenian calendar | 349 ԹՎ ՅԽԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -944 – -943 |
| Berber calendar | 1850 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1444 |
| Burmese calendar | 262 |
| Chinese calendar | 3536/3596-11-26 (己未年十一月廿六日) — to —
3537/3597-12-7(庚申年十二月初七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 616 – 617 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 892 – 893 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4660 – 4661 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 955 – 956 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 822 – 823 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4001 – 4002 |
| Holocene calendar | 10900 |
| Iranian calendar | 278 – 279 |
| Islamic calendar | 286 – 288 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1560 (皇紀1560年) |
| Korean calendar | 3233 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1443 |
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- 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.
[edit] Europe
- Harald Fairhair (of the Yngling or Scilfing Dynasty) subdues the petty kings of Norway and conquers the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- February — Pope Benedict IV succeeds Pope John IX as the 117th pope.
[edit] Medicine
- The Persian scientist Rhazes distinguishes smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintains "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".
[edit] Births
- Abu Jafar Khazeni, Persian astronomer and mathematician
[edit] 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)
