| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| 903 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Categories |
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| Gregorian calendar | 903 CMIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1656 |
| Armenian calendar | 352 ԹՎ ՅԾԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5653 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 824–825 |
| Bengali calendar | 310 |
| Berber calendar | 1853 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1447 |
| Burmese calendar | 265 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6411–6412 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3600 or 3393 — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3601 or 3394 |
| Coptic calendar | 619–620 |
| Discordian calendar | 2069 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 895–896 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4663–4664 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 959–960 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 824–825 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4003–4004 |
| Holocene calendar | 10903 |
| Iranian calendar | 281–282 |
| Islamic calendar | 290–291 |
| Japanese calendar | Engi 3 (延喜３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 801–803 |
| Julian calendar | 903 CMIII |
| Korean calendar | 3236 |
| Minguo calendar | 1009 before ROC 民前1009年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −565 |
| Seleucid era | 1214/1215 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1445–1446 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1029 or 648 or −124 — to — 阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1030 or 649 or −123 |
King Berengar I and the monks of Casauria
Year 903 (CMIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- King Berengar I of Italy proceeds to issue concessions and privileges to the Lombard nobility and monasteries. He grants concessions to Bobbio Abbey in Emilia-Romagna (Northeast Italy).
- King Louis IV ("the Child") promulgates the Raffelstetten customs regulations, a legal document for a toll-bridge on the Danube River in Asten (modern Austria).
Britain
Arabian Empire
- November 29 – Battle of Hama: Abbasid forces under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeat the Qarmatians near Hama, on the banks of the Orontes River (modern Syria). The Qarmatian army is scattered and pursued by Abbasid troops; Al-Husayn ibn Zikrawayh and other Qarmatian leaders are captured.
By topic
Religion
- July – Pope Benedict IV dies after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by Leo V as the 118th pope of the Catholic Church. Leo is imprisoned and tortured by Antipope Christopher after a reign of just 1 month. Christopher makes himself the new pope of Rome.
Births
- December 7 – Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986)
- Feng Yanji, chancellor of Southern Tang (d. 960)
- Kūya, Japanese priest of Pure Land Buddhism (d. 972)
- Li Gu, chancellor of Later Zhou (d. 960)
- Wang Jun, chancellor of Later Zhou (or 902)
Deaths
- March 6
- Lu Guangqi, Chinese official and chancellor
- Su Jian, Chinese official and chancellor
- March 26 – Sugawara no Michizane, Japanese politician and poet (b. 845)
- June 10 – Cheng Rui, Chinese warlord
- July 27– Abdallah II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir
- July – Benedict IV, pope of the Catholic Church[1]
- December 24 – Hedwiga, duchess of Saxony
- December 30 – Tian Jun, Chinese warlord (b. 858)
- Adalhard of Babenberg, Frankish nobleman
- Moses Bar-Kepha, Syriac bishop and writer
- Théodrate of Troyes, Frankish queen (b. 868)
- Zhu Yanshou, Chinese governor (b. 870)
References
- ↑ "Benedict IV | pope". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
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