900
Eastern Hemisphere in 900 AD.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 870s 880s 890s – 900s – 910s 920s 930s |
| Years: | 897 898 899 – 900 – 901 902 903 |
| 900 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 900 CM |
| Ab urbe condita | 1653 |
| Armenian calendar | 349 ԹՎ ՅԽԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -944 – -943 |
| Bengali calendar | 307 |
| Berber calendar | 1850 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1444 |
| Burmese calendar | 262 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6408 – 6409 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年十一月廿六日 (3536/3596-11-26) — to —
庚申年十二月初七日(3537/3597-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 616 – 617 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 892 – 893 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4660 – 4661 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 956 – 957 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 822 – 823 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4001 – 4002 |
| Holocene calendar | 10900 |
| Iranian calendar | 278 – 279 |
| Islamic calendar | 286 – 288 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3233 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1443 |
Year 900 (CM) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display a full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
America
Asia
- Gyeonhwon formally establishes the kingdom of Hubaekje in southwestern Korea.
- April 21, Namwaran and his children, Lady Angkatan and Bukah, are granted pardon by the Datu of Tondo, as represented Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pila, which released them of all their debts as inscribed in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Philippines.
Europe
- Harald Fairhair (of the Yngling or Scilfing Dynasty) subdues the petty kings of Norway and conquers the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
By topic
Art
- c. 900-1230 - Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, is built. Anasazi culture.
Religion
Medicine
- The Persian scientist Rhazes distinguishes smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintains "the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as a never-ending flow".
Births
- Abu Jafar Khazeni, Persian astronomer and mathematician