WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 10. CENTURY
Find out what all happened in the first half of the 10. century

Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba. (16. January 929)

Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. (29. January 904)

Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao Dynasty in northern China. (27. February 907)

Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs. (4. March 932)

After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river. (15. March 933)

Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. (16. March 934)

Alexander becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. (11. May 912)

Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang Dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule. (12. May 907)

After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars. (12. May 922)

King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day. (26. May 946)

Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor. (27. May 927)

Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. (15. June 923)

Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. (11. July 911)

Æthelstan, King of England, secures a pledge from Constantine II of Scotland that the latter will not ally with Viking kings, beginning the process of unifying Great Britain. This is considered the closest thing that England has to a foundation date. (12. July 927)

Rollo lays siege to Chartres. (20. July 911)

Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona. (26. July 920)

Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week. (29. July 904)

Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city. (31. July 904)

Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabids army. (1. August 902)

The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia. (5. August 910)