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Year 921 (CMXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • The Fatimids crush the Idrisid dynasty in battle, taking Tlemcen and Fès.
  • The Fatimids create a new capital in Ifriqiya, Mahdiya.

    • Asia

  • June 21 – Ahmad ibn Fadlan is sent from Baghdad to Almış, first Muslim elteber (client ruler) of Volga Bulgaria, on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir.
  • The Later Liang Dynasty of China reports that all "barbarian" tribes have been pacified by the Khitan.

    • Europe

  • Treaty of Bonn: East France and West France recognize each other.
  • Ludmila of Bohemia is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
  • Henry the Fowler invades Bavaria, and obtains fealty from Arnulf the Bad.
  • A Hungarian army, led by Dursac (Tarhos?) and Bogát, defeats an army of insurgents, who planned to overthrow their ally, Italian emperor Berengar of Friuli, at Brescia.

    • Births

  • October 27 – Emperor Shizong of Later Zhou
  • Edmund I of England (d. 946)
  • Ja'far ibn al-Furat, Ikhshidid and Fatimid vizier (d. 1001)
  • Abe no Seimei, Japanese cosmologist (d. 1005)
  • Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu, Heian period waka poet and Japanese nobleman
  • Shaykh Syed Mir Mirak Andrabi, fifth generation of Sadaat-Andrabia in the Kashmir Valley

    • Deaths

  • September 15 – Ludmila of Bohemia, ruler of Bohemia
  • Ragnall ua Ímair, Norse-Gael king of Northumbria
  • Richard, Duke of Burgundy (b. c. 867)
  • Vratislaus I of Bohemia (b. c. 915)

    • References

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