Year 923 (CMXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Europe

• June 15 Battle of Soissons: King Robert I is killed; the Frankish army, led by Charles the Simple, is defeated and routed near Soissons. Charles is captured and imprisoned at Péronne. The nobles elect Robert's son-in-law Rudolph, duke of Burgundy, as king of the West Frankish Kingdom (until 936).

• July 29 Battle of Fiorenzuola: Lombard forces led by King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the deposed Emperor Berengar I at Firenzuola (Tuscany). A pact is reached between Rudolph and Berengar, who abdicates the imperial throne and cedes sovereignty over the rest of Italy.

Asia

• May 13 The Later Liang, one of the Five Dynasties in China, falls to Later Tang (founded by Li Cunxu). Li proclaims himself emperor and moves his residence back to the old Tang capital of Luoyang.

• August 11 The Qarmatians of Bahrayn capture and pillage the city of Basra.

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Births

• September 7 Suzaku, emperor of Japan (d. 952)

• Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Muslim intellectual (d. 1023)

• Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, Muslim scholar (approximate date)

• Eadred (or Edred), king of England (d. 955)

• Fujiwara no Nakafumi, Japanese waka poet (d. 992)

• Jeongjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 949)

• Liu Honggao, Chinese chancellor (d. 943)

Deaths

• June 15 Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (b. 860)

• August 2 Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (or 914)

• August 27 Ageltrude, queen of Italy and Holy Roman Empress

• October 8 Pilgrim I, archbishop of Salzburg

November 20

• Jing Xiang, Chinese strategist

• Li Zhen, official of Later Liang

• Abu Bakr al-Khallal, Muslim scholar and jurist (b. 848)

• Adarnase IV, prince of Iberia/Kartli (Georgia)

• Badr al-Hammami (the Elder), Abbasid general

• Gurgen I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)

• Harshavarman I, king of Angkor (Cambodia)

• Ibn Khuzaymah, Muslim hadith and scholar (b. 837)

• Ma Chuo, general and official of Wuyue (or 922)

• Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Persian scholar (b. 839)

• Reccared, Galician clergyman (b. 885)

• Ricwin (or Ricuin), Frankish nobleman

• Walter (or Vaulter), archbishop of Sens

• Wang Yanzhang, general of Later Liang (b. 863)

• Zhao Yan, military prefect and official of Later Liang

• Zhu Youzhen, emperor of Later Liang (b. 888)

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