Year 916 (CMXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
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Events
By place
Sicilian Berbers in Agrigento revolt and depose the independent Emir Ahmed ibn Khorob. They offer Sicily to the Fatimid Caliphate in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia). Caliph Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah welcomes this turn of events, but refuses to grant the Berber rulers their autonomy. He sends a Fatimid expeditionary force under Abu Said Musa which lands in Sicily and, with some difficulty, takes control of the island. Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah appoints Salam ibn Rashid as the emir of Sicily. Ahmed ibn Khorob is dispatched to Raqqada and executed.
Lady Æthelflæd, daughter of the late King Alfred the Great and the widow of Earl Æthelred of Mercia, sends an army into Brycheiniog to avenge the murder of the Mercian abbot Ecbryht and his companions. They seize and burn the royal fort of King Tewdr of Brycheiniog at Llangorse Lake (Wales), and take the queen and thirty-three others captive.
Abaoji, Khitan ruler and founder of the Liao Dynasty, adopts Chinese court formalities in which he declares himself emperor in the Chinese style and adopts an era name, Taizu of Liao. He names his eldest son Yelü Bei as heir apparent, a first in the history of the Khitan. Abaoji leads a campaign in the west, conquering much of the Mongolian Plains.
By topic
Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs, dies. He is regarded as the first bishop of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the founder of the first Slavic Literary School. Clement is buried in his monastery, Saint Panteleimon, in Ohrid (modern North Macedonia).
Births
June 22 – ySayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid emir (d. 967)
Theodoric I, German nobleman (approximate date)
Yuan Zong, emperor of Southern Tang (d. 961)
Deaths
March 27 – Alduin I, Frankish nobleman
May 25 – Flann Sinna, king of Meath
Anarawd ap Rhodri, king of Gwynedd
Bencion, Frankish nobleman
Clement of Ohrid, Bulgarian scholar
Ge Congzhou, Chinese general
Mór ingen Cearbhaill, queen of Laigin
Tighearnach ua Cleirigh, king of Aidhne
Theodora, Roman politician
Theodoric I, bishop of Paderborn
Ziyadat Allah III, Aghlabid emir