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Year '''915''' ('''[[Roman numerals|CMXV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Europe ====
* Summer &ndash; [[Battle of Garigliano]]: The Christian League, personally led by [[Pope John X]], lays [[siege]] to [[Garigliano]] (a fortified Arab camp in the area of [[Minturno]]), which is blockaded from the sea by the [[Byzantine navy]]. After three months of siege, plagued by hunger, the [[Saracens]] decide to break out of Garigliano and find their way back to [[Emirate of Sicily|Sicily]] by any means possible. Christian hunting parties fall on the fleeing Arabs, and all are captured and executed.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter Partner|title=The Lands of St. Peter: The Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance|url=https://archive.org/details/landsofstpeterpa0000part|url-access=registration|date=1 Jan 1972|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520021815|pages=[https://archive.org/details/landsofstpeterpa0000part/page/81 81-82]|edition=illustrated}}<!--|access-date=23 December 2014--></ref>
* [[July]] &ndash; The [[Hungarians|Magyars (Hungarians)]], led by [[Zoltán of Hungary|Zoltán]], only son of the late Grand Prince [[Árpád]], attack [[Swabia]], [[Franconia]] and [[Saxony]]. Small units penetrate as far as [[Bremen]], burning the city.

=== By topic ===
==== Religion ====
* [[December 3]] &ndash; John X crowns the Italian sovereign [[Berengar I of Italy|Berengar I]] as the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] in [[Rome]]. Berengar returns to northern [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Italy]], where [[March of Friuli|Friuli]] is threatened by the Hungarians.
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== Births ==
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Al-Hakam II]], Umayyad [[caliph]] (d. [[976]])
* [[Abu Shakur Balkhi]], Persian poet
* [[Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois|Adalbert I]], Frankish [[Nobility|nobleman]] (approximate date)
* [[Al-Mutanabbi]], Muslim poet (d. [[965]])
* [[Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia|Boleslaus I]], duke of [[Duchy of Bohemia|Bohemia]] (approximate date)
* [[Burchard III, Duke of Swabia|Burchard III]], Frankish nobleman (d. [[973]])
* [[Hasdai ibn Shaprut]], Jewish diplomat (d. [[970]])
* [[Sunifred II of Cerdanya|Sunifred II]], Frankish nobleman (d. [[968]])
* [[William III, Duke of Aquitaine|William III]], Frankish nobleman (d. [[963]])

== Deaths ==
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Yang Shihou]], Chinese general
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Consort Zhang (Zhu Zhen)|Zhang]], Chinese empress (b. [[892]])
* [[Abu Salih Mansur]], Samanid governor
* [[Adalbert II, Margrave of Tuscany|Adalbert II]], Lombard nobleman
* [[Al-Nasa'i]], Muslim scholar and [[hadith]] compiler
* Bi'dah al-Kabirah, was a songstress, and had been a slave of Arib. She died on 10 July 915. Abu Bakr ibn al-Muhtadi led the funeral prayers.<ref>{{cite book | last1=al-Sāʿī | first1=Ibn | last2=Toorawa | first2=Shawkat M. | last3=Bray | first3=Julia | title=كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء: Women and the Court of Baghdad | publisher=NYU Press | series=Library of Arabic Literature | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-4798-6679-3 |pages=20, 22}}</ref> She was also concubine of Abbasid caliph Al-Mamūn (r. 813–833)
* [[Bertila of Spoleto]], queen of [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Italy]]
* [[Cutheard of Lindisfarne|Cutheard]], bishop of [[Lindisfarne]]
* [[Domnall mac Áeda]], king of [[Northern Uí Néill|Ailech]] ([[Ireland]])
* [[Gonzalo Fernández of Castile|Gonzalo Fernandez]], count of [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]]
* [[Gregory IV of Naples|Gregory IV]], duke of [[Duchy of Naples|Naples]]
* [[Jing Hao]], Chinese painter 
* [[Leoluca]], Sicilian [[abbot]] (approximate date)
* [[Li Yanlu (Qi)|Li Yanlu]], Chinese [[warlord]]
* [[Ratbod (archbishop of Trier)|Ratbod]], archbishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier|Trier]]
* [[Reginar, Duke of Lorraine|Reginar I]], Frankish nobleman
* [[Regino of Prüm]], German abbot
* [[Spytihněv I, Duke of Bohemia|Spytihněv I]], duke of Bohemia 
* [[Sunyer II, Count of Empúries|Sunyer II]], Frankish nobleman
* [[Tuotilo]], German composer (approximate date)

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