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Year 929 (CMXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Mpu Sindok, ruler of the Mataram Kingdom, moves his court from Central Java to East Java in Indonesia.

    • Europe

  • January 16 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba creates the Caliphate of Cordoba, to compete with his Fatimid rivals, who had assumed the title in 910.

    • Religion

  • Pope Stephen VII succeeds Pope Leo VI.

    • Births

  • Kishi Joō, Japanese Waka poet and lady of the court (d. 985)
  • Qian Chu, last King of Wuyue (d. 988)

    • Deaths

  • Al-Batani, Arab astronomer
  • King Charles the Simple of France
  • Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Ahmad al-Madhara'i, fiscal director of Egypt and Syria for the Abbasid Caliphate
  • Thumal the Qahraman, Arab female judge.

    • References

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