Year 915 (CMXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

Europe

• Summer Battle of Garigliano: The Christian League, personally led by Pope John X, lays siege to Garigliano (a fortified Arab camp in the area of Minturno), which is blockaded from the sea by the Byzantine navy. After three months of siege, plagued by hunger, the Saracens decide to break out of Garigliano and find their way back to Sicily by any means possible. Christian hunting parties fall on the fleeing Arabs, and all are captured and executed.

• July The Magyars (Hungarians), led by Zoltán, only son of the late Grand Prince Árpád, attack Swabia, Franconia and Saxony. Small units penetrate as far as Bremen, burning the city.

By topic

Religion

• December 3 John X crowns the Italian sovereign Berengar I as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. Berengar returns to northern Italy, where Friuli is threatened by the Hungarians.

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Births

• January 13 Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (d. 976)

• Abu Shakur Balkhi, Persian poet

• Adalbert I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)

• Al-Mutanabbi, Muslim poet (d. 965)

• Boleslaus I, duke of Bohemia (approximate date)

• Burchard III, Frankish nobleman (d. 973)

• Hasdai ibn Shaprut, Jewish diplomat (d. 970)

• Sunifred II, Frankish nobleman (d. 968)

• William III, Frankish nobleman (d. 963)

Deaths

• April 23 Yang Shihou, Chinese general

• November 4 Zhang, Chinese empress (b. 892)

• Abu Salih Mansur, Samanid governor

• Adalbert II, Lombard nobleman

• Al-Nasa'i, Muslim scholar and hadith compiler

• Bi'dah al-Kabirah, was a songstress, and had been a slave of Arib. She died on 10 July 915. Abu Bakr ibn al-Muhtadi led the funeral prayers. She was also concubine of Abbasid caliph Al-Mamūn (r. 813–833)

• Bertila of Spoleto, queen of Italy

• Cutheard, bishop of Lindisfarne

• Domnall mac Áeda, king of Ailech (Ireland)

• Gonzalo Fernandez, count of Castile

• Gregory IV, duke of Naples

• Jing Hao, Chinese painter

• Leoluca, Sicilian abbot (approximate date)

• Li Yanlu, Chinese warlord

• Ratbod, archbishop of Trier

• Reginar I, Frankish nobleman

• Regino of Prüm, German abbot

• Spytihněv I, duke of Bohemia

• Sunyer II, Frankish nobleman

• Tuotilo, German composer (approximate date)

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