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Find sources: "903" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2019) Calendar year Years Millennium 1st millennium Centuries 9th century 10th century 11th century Decades 880s 890s 900s 910s 920s Years 900 901 902 903 904 905 906 v t e 903 by topic Leaders Political entities State leaders Religious leaders Categories Births Deaths Establishments v t e 903 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 903 CMIII Ab urbe condita 1656 Armenian calendar 352 ԹՎ ՅԾԲ Assyrian calendar 5653 Balinese saka calendar 824–825 Bengali calendar 309–310 Berber calendar 1853 Buddhist calendar 1447 Burmese calendar 265 Byzantine calendar 6411–6412 Chinese calendar 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3600 or 3393 — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3601 or 3394 Coptic calendar 619–620 Discordian calendar 2069 Ethiopian calendar 895–896 Hebrew calendar 4663–4664 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 959–960 - Shaka Samvat 824–825 - Kali Yuga 4003–4004 Holocene calendar 10903 Iranian calendar 281–282 Islamic calendar 290–291 Japanese calendar Engi 3 (延喜３年) Javanese calendar 801–803 Julian calendar 903 CMIII Korean calendar 3236 Minguo calendar 1009 before ROC 民前1009年 Nanakshahi calendar −565 Seleucid era 1214/1215 AG Thai solar calendar 1445–1446 Tibetan calendar ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 1029 or 648 or −124 — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 1030 or 649 or −123 King [Berengar I](/source/Berengar_I_of_Italy) and the monks of [Casauria](/source/Castiglione_a_Casauria) Year **903** (**[CMIII](/source/Roman_numerals)**) was a [common year starting on Saturday](/source/Common_year_starting_on_Saturday) of the [Julian calendar](/source/Julian_calendar). ## Events ### By place #### Europe - King [Berengar I of Italy](/source/Berengar_I_of_Italy) proceeds to issue concessions and privileges to the Lombard [nobility](/source/Nobility) and [monasteries](/source/Monastery). He grants concessions to [Bobbio Abbey](/source/Bobbio_Abbey) in [Emilia-Romagna](/source/Emilia-Romagna) ([Northeast Italy](/source/Northeast_Italy)). - King [Louis IV](/source/Louis_the_Child) ("the Child") promulgates the [Raffelstetten customs regulations](/source/Raffelstetten_customs_regulations), a legal document for a [toll](/source/Fee)-bridge on the [Danube River](/source/Danube) in [Asten](/source/Asten%2C_Austria) (modern [Austria](/source/Austria)). #### Britain - The [Danish](/source/Denmark) [Vikings](/source/Vikings) invade [Anglesey](/source/Anglesey) after being driven out of [Dublin](/source/Kingdom_of_Dublin) (see [902](/source/902)). They fail to gain a foothold in [Wales](/source/Wales), and sail on to [Chester](/source/Chester). - A party of Danes under the Viking warlord [Ingimundr](/source/Ingimundr_(tenth_century)) attack the Welsh in a pitched battle at Maes Ros Meilon, perhaps near [Llanfaes](/source/Llanfaes). #### Arabian Empire - [November 29](/source/November_29) – [Battle of Hama](/source/Battle_of_Hama_(903)): Abbasid forces under [Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib](/source/Muhammad_ibn_Sulayman_al-Katib) defeat the [Qarmatians](/source/Qarmatians) near [Hama](/source/Hama), on the banks of the [Orontes River](/source/Orontes_River) (modern [Syria](/source/Syria)). The Qarmatian army is scattered and pursued by Abbasid troops; [Al-Husayn ibn Zikrawayh](/source/Al-Husayn_ibn_Zikrawayh) and other Qarmatian leaders are captured. ### By topic #### Religion - [July](/source/July) – Pope [Benedict IV](/source/Pope_Benedict_IV) dies after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by [Leo V](/source/Pope_Leo_V) as the 118th [pope](/source/Pope) of the [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church). Leo is imprisoned and [tortured](/source/Torture) by Antipope [Christopher](/source/Antipope_Christopher) after a reign of just 1 month. Christopher makes himself the new pope of [Rome](/source/Rome). ## Births - [December 7](/source/December_7) – [Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi](/source/Abd_al-Rahman_al-Sufi), Persian [astronomer](/source/Astronomer) (d. [986](/source/986)) - [Feng Yanji](/source/Feng_Yanji), chancellor of [Southern Tang](/source/Southern_Tang) (d. [960](/source/960)) - [Kūya](/source/K%C5%ABya), Japanese priest of [Pure Land Buddhism](/source/Pure_land) (d. [972](/source/972)) - [Li Gu](/source/Li_Gu_(Later_Zhou)), chancellor of [Later Zhou](/source/Later_Zhou) (d. 960) - [Wang Jun](/source/Wang_Jun_(Later_Zhou_chancellor)), chancellor of Later Zhou (or [902](/source/902)) ## Deaths - [March 6](/source/March_6) - [Lu Guangqi](/source/Lu_Guangqi), Chinese official and [chancellor](/source/Chancellor_of_the_Tang_dynasty) - [Su Jian](/source/Su_Jian), Chinese official and chancellor - [March 26](/source/March_26) – [Sugawara no Michizane](/source/Sugawara_no_Michizane), Japanese politician and [poet](/source/Japanese_poetry) (b. [845](/source/845)) - [June 10](/source/June_10) – [Cheng Rui](/source/Cheng_Rui), Chinese [warlord](/source/Warlord) - [July 27](/source/July_27)– [Abdallah II of Ifriqiya](/source/Abdallah_II_of_Ifriqiya), Aghlabid [emir](/source/Emir) - July – [Benedict IV](/source/Pope_Benedict_IV), pope of the [Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church)[1] - [December 24](/source/December_24) – [Hedwiga](/source/Hedwiga), duchess of [Saxony](/source/Duchy_of_Saxony) - [December 30](/source/December_30) – [Tian Jun](/source/Tian_Jun), Chinese warlord (b. [858](/source/858)) - [Adalhard of Babenberg](/source/Adalhard_von_Babenberg), Frankish [nobleman](/source/Nobility) - [Moses Bar-Kepha](/source/Moses_Bar-Kepha), Syriac [bishop](/source/Bishop) and writer - [Théodrate of Troyes](/source/Th%C3%A9odrate_of_Troyes), Frankish queen (b. [868](/source/868)) - [Zhu Yanshou](/source/Zhu_Yanshou), Chinese governor (b. [870](/source/870)) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Benedict IV | pope"](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benedict-IV). *Encyclopedia Britannica*. Retrieved May 7, 2019. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [903](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/903) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/903?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.