904 Year 904 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar .Events By place Byzantine Empire July 29 - Sack of Thessalonica: A Muslim fleet, led by the Greek renegade Leo of Tripoli , appears outside Thessalonica and begins its attack after a short and silent inspection of the fortification of the city. After attacks from the sea for two days, the Saracens are able to storm the city walls , overcome the Thessalonians' resistance and capture the city. The sacking continues for a full week, before the raiders depart for their base in the Levant . Having freed 4,000 Muslim prisoners and captured 60 ships, gaining a large loot, they carry off 22,000 men and woman as slaves. Arab–Byzantine War: The Byzantines under Andronikos Doukas , along with Eustathios Argyros , campaign against the Abbasids and defeat the Muslim garrisons of Mopsuestia and Tarsus , near Marash . Emperor Leo VI is forced to sign a peace treaty with Simeon I , ruler of the Bulgarian Empire . All Slavic-inhabited lands of Macedonia and southern Albania are ceded to the Bulgarians.Europe Summer - King Louis IV invites Kurszán , a Hungarian leader of the Magyar tribal confederation, and his entourage to negotiate at the Fischa River , but they are killed in an ambush . In Portugal , for the third time in less than 30 years, the Christians take control of Coimbra , this time for almost a century.Britain Prince Hywel ap Cadell of Seisyllwg marries Princess Elen of Dyfed . The latter's father, King Llywarch ap Hyfaidd , dies. The throne of Dyfed is claimed by Llywarch's brother, Rhodri ap Hyfaidd , but he is probably forced to flee from Hywel's armies.Arabian Empire Winter - Shayban ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun succeeds his nephew Harun ibn Khumarawayh as emir of the Tulunid Dynasty , who is killed in a mutiny during the invasion of Egypt by the Abbasid Caliphate .China September 22 - The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhao Zong , along with his family and many ministers, after seizing control of the imperial government. Zhu places Zhao Zong's 13-year-old son Ai on the imperial throne as a puppet ruler of the Tang Dynasty . Zhu Quanzhong has Chang'an , the capital of the Tang Dynasty and the largest city in the ancient world, destroyed, and moves the materials to Luoyang, which becomes the new capital.By topic Religion Births September 10 - Guo Wei , emperor of Later Zhou Æthelwold , bishop of Winchester Egill Skallagrímsson , Viking warrior and poet Yongming Yanshou , Chinese Zen masterDeaths September 22 - Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Furat , Abbasid official Al-Husayn ibn Zikrawayh , Qarmatian leader Al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah , Abbasid vizier Christopher , antipope of the Catholic Church Cui Yin , chancellor of the Tang dynasty Du Xunhe , Chinese poet Erenfried I , Frankish nobleman Harun ibn Khumarawayh, Tulunid emir Ímar ua Ímair , Norse king of Dublin John the Old Saxon , abbot of Athelney Ki no Tomonori , Japanese poet Kurszán, ruler of the Magyars Lady Zhang , wife of Zhu Quanzhong Leo V, pope of the Catholic Church Li Shenfu , general of the Tang Dynasty Llywarch ap Hyfaidd, king of Dyfed Tannet of Pagan , king of Burma Wigmund , bishop of Dorchester Yahya ibn Al-Qassim , Idrisid sultan Zhang Jun , chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
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