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Year 908 (CMVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • March 26 – Zhu Wen has Li Zhu, the last Tang dynasty emperor, poisoned.
  • June 9 – Powerful generals Zhang Hao and Xu Wen assassinate Yang Wo Prince of Hongnong and claim that he died of sudden illness. Yang Wo's eldest (also full) younger brother Yang Longyan is chosen to succeed him.
  • June 18 – Xu Wen murders Zhang Hao and effectively holds the power of Hongnong.
  • December 17 – Husayn ibn Hamdan leads an attempt to depose the newly-appointed Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad, al-Muqtadir, and install his uncle Ibn al-Mu'tazz. The plotters kill vizier al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, but fail to capture al-Muqtadir, leading to the coup's collapse.

    • Byzantine Empire

  • May 15 – Patriarch Euthymius I of Constantinople crowns the infant Constantine VII as co-emperor.

    • Europe

  • The Battle of Belach Mugna is fought in Ireland.
  • August 2 – Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian army defeats the Thuringian army of Margrave Burchard, killing him, together with Count Egino and Rudolf, bishop of Würzburg.

    • Middle East

  • Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.

    • Births

  • date unknown
  • Al-Muttaqi, Abbasid caliph in Baghdad (died 968)
  • Kiyohara no Motosuke, Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman (died 990)

    • Deaths

  • February 23 – Li Keyong, Shatuo, military governor during the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 856)
  • March 26 – Aidi (Zhaoxuan), last emperor of the Tang Dynasty
  • June 9 – Yang Wo, Prince of Hongnong
  • June 18 – Zhang Hao, guard commander during the Chinese Tang Dynasty under Principality of Hongnong
  • August 3
  • Burchard, Duke of Thuringia
  • Egino, Duke of Thuringia
  • Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg
  • December 17
  • al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier
  • Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day
  • date unknown
  • Al-Muktafi, Abbasid caliph
  • Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz, poet and caliph of the Abbasid dynasty for a day, following the death of Al-Muktafi

    • References

    908 Wikipedia
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