This page relates to the year 930 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Muslim world

• the Qarmates of Abu Tahir plunder Mecque, carrying the black stone of the Ka' Ba which will be returned against ransom only twenty years later (952).

France

• Battle of Estresse which sees the king Raoul beating the Norman ones.
• kings Francs do not intervene any more in the south of the the Loire.

Scandinavia

• Reforms of Ulfjotr in Iceland with the creation of the Parliament, the Althing and reorganization of the Thing of district under the control of the Godar. It constitutes a kind of republic directed by a kind of assembly aristocratic. (fridharöld, “ age of Freedom ”, 930 - 1150).

Art & culture

• Foundation of the Abbey of Montmajour in Provence.
• Odon of Cluny composes the life of Géraud d' Aurillac .

Births in 930

Death in 930

• October 23rd: Daigo, emperor of the Japan.

• Al Battani, astronomer, mathematician and geographer, known in Europe under the name of Albetanus, which discovered the precession of the equinox S and the slope of the ecliptic . It estimates that Africa and Asia do not meet (probable date).

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