906

This article is about the year 906. For the car, see Porsche 906. For the area code, see Area code 906.

Year 906 (CMVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century 10th century 11th century
Decades:	880s 890s 900s 910s 920s
Years:	903 904 905 906 907 908 909

906 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	906 CMVI
Ab urbe condita	1659
Armenian calendar	355 ԹՎ ՅԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5656
Balinese saka calendar	827–828
Bengali calendar	313
Berber calendar	1856
Buddhist calendar	1450
Burmese calendar	268
Byzantine calendar	6414–6415
Chinese calendar	乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3603 or 3396     — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3604 or 3397
Coptic calendar	622–623
Discordian calendar	2072
Ethiopian calendar	898–899
Hebrew calendar	4666–4667
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	962–963
- Shaka Samvat	827–828
- Kali Yuga	4006–4007
Holocene calendar	10906
Iranian calendar	284–285
Islamic calendar	293–294
Japanese calendar	Engi 6 (延喜６年)
Javanese calendar	805–806
Julian calendar	906 CMVI
Korean calendar	3239
Minguo calendar	1006 before ROC 民前1006年
Nanakshahi calendar	−562
Seleucid era	1217/1218 AG
Thai solar calendar	1448–1449
Tibetan calendar	阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 1032 or 651 or −121     — to — 阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1033 or 652 or −120

King Constantine II of Scotland

Events

By place

Europe

• February 27 – Battle of Fritzlar: The Conradines defeat the Babenberg counts, to establish themselves as dukes of Franconia (modern-day Bavaria). Count Conrad the Elder is killed in the battle; his son Conrad the Younger becomes duke of Franconia.
• Summer – Duke Mojmir II halts the advance of the plundering Hungarians under Grand Prince Árpád in Great Moravia (approximate date).

Britain

• King Constantine II of Scotland calls for an assembly to meet at Scone. Scottish Christian clergy under Bishop Cellach pledges that the laws and disciplines of the faith, and the laws of churches and gospels, should be kept pariter cum Scottis.^[1]

Arabian Empire

• October 22 – Abbasid commander Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire from Tarsus, joined by the governor Rustam ibn Baradu. He reaches the Halys River and takes 4,000–5,000 captives.^[2]

Asia

• January 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong secretly puts Empress Dowager He, the wife of the late Emperor Zhaozong and mother of the reigning Emperor Ai, to death (by strangulation) and has her defamed and posthumously demoted to commoner rank.

Armenia

• 906 K'argop' earthquake: It takes place in the monastery K'argop', Armenia. The monastery is also known as Xotakerk', the monastery of the Vegetarians. The earthquake occurs approximately 150 years following the 735 Vayots Dzor Province earthquake, and affects the same region.^[3]

Births

• June 21 – Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Saffarid emir (d. 963)
• Abu Tahir al-Jannabi, Qarmatian ruler (d. 944)
• Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman (d. 943)
• Guan Tong, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)
• Liu Congxiao, Chinese general (d. 962)
• Majolus of Cluny, Frankish abbot (approximate date)
• Nasr II, Samanid emir (d. 943)
• Sherira Gaon, Jewish spiritual leader (d. 1006)

Deaths

• January 22 – He, empress of the Tang dynasty
• January 27 – Liu Can, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
• February 27 – Conrad the Elder, Frankish nobleman
• September 9 – Adalbert von Babenberg, Frankish nobleman
• Acfred I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
• Dae Wihae, king of Balhae (Korea)
• Tughj ibn Juff, Abbasid governor
• Zhong Chuan, Chinese warlord

References

1. After Anderson, Early Sources, p. 445.
2. Rosenthal, Franz, ed. (1985). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVIII: The Return of the Caliphate to Baghdad: The Caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid, al-Muktafī and al-Muqtadir, A.D. 892–915/A.H. 279–302. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. pp. 172, 180. ISBN 978-0-87395-876-9.
3. Guidoboni, Traina, 1995, p. 126

Sources

• Guidoboni, Emanuela; Traina, Giusto (1995), "A new catalogue of earthquakes in the historical Armenian area from antiquity to the 12th century", Annals of Geophysics, 38, doi:10.4401/ag-4134