951

This page relates to the year 951 Calendrier Julien.

Events

China

  • Guo Wei founds with Kaifeng the transitory dynasty of the posterior Zhou or Heou-Tcheou dynasty (fine in 959).

Spain

  • Reign of Ordoño III, king of the Asturies (fine in 956)
  • Reign of Sanche Ier the Fat, king of León.
  • Revolt of the nobility of León. Ordoño III must request the assistance of the caliph of Cordoue.

France

  • Guillaume III head of Packing becomes duke of Aquitaine (fine in 963).
  • the Hungarian, come from Italy, cross the the Alps and enter in Aquitaine, that they ruin during the summer. They return then in their country while passing by again by Italy.
  • the bishop of Puy, Godescalc leads the first Pèlerinage French to Saint-Jacob de Compostelle.

Italy

  • the confusion created in Italy by the dissolution of the Empire is extreme. Innumerable rivals dispute the crown, while the papacy and fallen under the cut from the local aristocracy.

  • Othon Ier de Germanie intervenes with the call of Adélaïde, widow of the king of Italy Lothaire II. It deposits Bérenger II, is proclaimed king of Italy to Pavia then the December 25th wife Adélaïde. It names like viceroy the marquis of Ivrée, Bérenger.

British Isles

  • the Norwegian king of Ireland Óláfr Kvaran definitively gives up joining together the kingdoms of Dublin and York.

Art & culture

  • the abbot of Cluny receives the authorization to place under its authority all the monasteries which it would reform.

  • the faithful ones of Al Basra compose a Encyclopédie in 52 volumes.

Births in 951

  • Holy Romuald, founder about the Camaldules, the last of the fathers of the desert.

Death in 951

Map-bms: 951

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