Year 927 (CMXXVII ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
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Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria on his throne.
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May 27 – Simeon I , emperor (tsar ) of the Bulgarian Empire , dies of heart failure in his palace at Preslav after a 34-year reign. He is survived by four sons and succeeded by his second son Peter I , who signs a peace treaty with the Byzantine Empire . The peace is confirmed by Peter's marrying Maria Lekapene (the daughter of Christopher Lekapenos , son and co-emperor of Romanos I ). The treaty restores the borders to those established by several treaties (thus recognizing Bulgaria's possession of Macedonia ).[1]
July 12 – King Æthelstan of Wessex claims his kingdom and receives the submission of High-Reeve Ealdred I of Bamburgh and probably also of Owain ap Dyfnwal , King of Strathclyde , at Eamont Bridge . He unifies the various small kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy , creating the Kingdom of England , and also secures a pledge from King Constantine II of Scotland , that he will not ally with the Viking kings.[2] This summer also Kings Hywel Dda of Deheubarth and Owain of Glywysing and Gwent submit to the overlordship of Æthelstan at Hereford . The borders between England and Wales are set at the River Wye .
Summer – The Hungarians fight in Rome , helping Margrave Peter against Pope John X . They then go to southern Italy , and conquer the cities of Taranto and Oria .
August 15 – Led by the Slavic Sabir, the Fatimids from Sicily , capture and destroy Taranto. They enslave much of the population.
January 13 – Berno of Cluny , Frankish monk and abbot
January 14 – Wang Yanhan , king of Min (Ten Kingdoms )
May 27 – Simeon I , emperor (tsar ) of the Bulgarian Empire
August 24
September 14 – Cele Dabhaill mac Scannal , Irish abbot
November 7 – Zhu Shouyin , general of Later Tang
November 20 – Xu Wen , general and regent of Wu (b. 862 )
Abdallah ibn Muhammad , Abbasid vizier (or 926 )
Shahid Balkhi , Persian philosopher and poet
Gyeongae , king (55th ruler ) of Silla (Korea )
Ha-Mim , Moroccan prophet and messenger of Islam
Ibn al-Dahhak , Kurdish chieftain (approximate date)
Miró II , count of Cerdanya and Besalú (Spain )
Ren Huan , general and chancellor of Later Tang
Sin Sung-gyom , Korean general (Three Kingdoms )
Sigtrygg Cáech , Viking king of Scandinavian York
Zhang Ge , politician and chancellor of Former Shu
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 42–47. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0 .