899

This page relates to the year 899 Calendrier Julien.

Events

With died of Alfred Large the, all England of the South is released from the Danes.
Beginning of the reign of Edouard Ier the Old one, king of the Wessex (fine in 924).

Edouard ( Edward ), king of Wessex overcomes the Norman ones with the assistance of his/her sister Ethelfleda, regent of Mercie and the king Donald VI of Scotland.

Beginning of the incursions of the Magyar in Occident and in Balkans (fine in 970). They benefit from the disorganization of Western Europe to carry out some 70 incursions in 50 years with their light cavalry and fast.

the Magyars launch wars of plunder or forwardings undertaken to the call of Germanic, French or Byzantine kings rival. They are carried out either in dialog with the large prince, or on the initiative of sufficiently powerful chiefs. In addition to the spoils of plunderings (women, gold, cloths, bovines, horses), the large princes receive the tribute of the emperor of Byzance and the Germanic kings.
Devastations of the Hungarian in Bavaria. They plunder the monasteries, devastate and depopulate the campaigns, avoiding the strengthened cities.
First Magyar raids in Lombardy and Venezia.

the Viking S devastate the area between the Oise and the Meuse.
In Spain, the chief of revolted Bobastro, Omar Ben Hafsun, converts with Christianity.
Dedication of the sanctuary of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle. Beginning of the pilgrimages.
With died of Zoe Zaoutzina, the Byzantine emperor Leon VI Wise the wife Eudokia Baiana (dead in 901).
Treated precedences in the Byzantine Empire ( taktikon ) composed by the Master of the ceremonies Philotheos.

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