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Year 907 (CMVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period begins in China.
  • February 27 – Yelü Abaoji, Great Khan of the Khitan people, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu of Liao, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.
  • May 12 – The short-lived Qi kingdom is founded by Li Maozhen, in northwest China.
  • June 1
  • The Tang dynasty ends with an abdication to Later Liang, founded by Zhu Wen in northern China, first of the Five Dynasties.
  • The Former Shu kingdom is founded by Wang Jian in Chengdu, first of the Ten Kingdoms.
  • The Wuyue kingdom is founded by Qian Liu in Hangzhou.
  • Oleg of Novgorod leads the Kievan Rus' in a campaign against Constantinople, in the Rus'–Byzantine War, concluded by the Rus'–Byzantine Treaty (in which the city of Chernihiv in the Ukraine is first mentioned).
  • Europe

  • July 4–7 – Battle of Pressburg: At "Brezalauspurc" (probably modern-day Bratislava in Slovakia), the advancing East Francian army is annihilated by the Hungarians. Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria and Dietmar I, Archbishop of Salzburg are killed, together with 19 dukes, 2 bishops and 3 abbots; thus East Francia loses control of the March of Pannonia.
  • Religion

  • February 1 – Nicholas Mystikos is deposed as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, (having fallen out with the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI), and is replaced by Euthymius Syncellus.
  • Births

  • Approximate date – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (murdered 935)
  • Bertha of Swabia, queen
  • Deaths

  • May 2 – Boris I, Knyaz (Prince) of the First Bulgarian Empire (852–889)
  • Probable date – Árpád, Hungarian ruling prince (ruled 895–907)
  • References

    907 Wikipedia