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

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Americas

  • Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl becomes ruler of the Toltecs (approximate date).

    • Asia

  • Later Liang falls to Later Tang (founded by Li Cunxu) in China.

    • Europe

  • June 15 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed, and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy.

    • Births

  • September 7 – Emperor Suzaku of Japan (d. 952)
  • Bernard of Menthon, Catholic saint
  • Jeonjong of Goryeo, third monarch of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea
  • Fujiwara no Nakafumi, middle Heian waka poet and Japanese nobleman
  • Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī, Arab intellectual

    • Deaths

  • June 15 – Robert I of France
  • August 2 – Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Adarnase IV of Iberia, member of the Georgian Bagratid dynasty of Tao-Klarjeti and prince of Iberia/Kartli
  • Ageltrude, Holy Roman Empress, queen and regent of Italy
  • Athelm, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Harshavarman I, Angkorian king
  • Al-Tabari, physician, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
  • Walter, Archbishop of Sens
  • Zhu Zhen, Later Liang Emperor of China

    • References

    923 Wikipedia
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