955
Calendar year
Battle of Lechfeld on an illustration of 1457 .
Year 955 (CMLV ) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
August 10 – Battle of Lechfeld : King Otto I ("the Great") defeats the Hungarians (also known as Magyars ) near Augsburg (Germany ). Otto's army (7,000 men), mainly composed of heavy cavalry, overwhelms the Hungarians along the Lech River . The German losses are heavy, among them Conrad ("the Red") and many other nobles. The commanders of the Hungarian army, Bulcsú and Lehel , are captured and executed. This victory puts an end to the Hungarian campaigns into western Europe .[ 1]
October 16 – Battle on the Raxa : Otto I, allied with the Rani tribe, defeats the Obotrite federation, led by Nako and his brother Stoigniew (probably at the Recknitz or Elde rivers) near Mecklenburg . The Elbe Slavs are forced to pay tribute , and accept a peace agreement.[ 2]
England
Africa
By topic
Religion
Births
May 10 – Al-Aziz Billah , caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (d. 996 )
October 22 – Qian Weijun , king of Wuyue (Ten Kingdoms ) (d. 991 )
November 9 – Gyeongjong of Goryeo , ruler of Korea (d. 981 )
Aboazar Lovesendes , Portuguese nobleman (approximate date)
Ælfric of Eynsham , English abbot and writer (approximate date)
Arduin of Ivrea (I), Lombard margrave and king of Italy (approximate date)
Eido I (or Ägidius), German nobleman and bishop (d. 1015 )
Ezzo (or Ehrenfried), Count Palatine of Lotharingia (Germany) (approximate date)
Gisela of Burgundy , duchess of Bavaria (approximate date)
Gunther of Bohemia , German hermit and saint (d. 1045 )
Lutgardis of Luxemburg , countess of Holland (Netherlands )
Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg , German princess-abbess and daughter of Otto I (d. 999 )
Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor ("the Red") (d. 983 )
Theophanu , empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 991 )
Kunhsaw Kyaunghpyu , king of the Pagan dynasty (d. 1048 )
Deaths
July 23 – He Ning , Chinese official and chancellor (b. 898 )
August 10
October 16 – Stoigniew , Obotrite prince and co-ruler
November 1 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria
November 8 – Pope Agapetus II , Catholic Church pontiff (b. 905 )
November 23 – Eadred (or Edred), king of England (b. 923 )
Abu 'Ali Chaghani , ruler of Chaghaniyan (Turkmenistan )
Bermudo Núñez , count of Cea (Spain ) (approximate date)
Gamle Eirikssen , Norwegian Viking ruler (b. 910 )
Hervé I , count of Mortagne and Perche
Lehel , Hungarian tribal chieftain (horka )
Muhammad ibn Shaddad , Shaddadid ruler
Parantaka I , ruler of Chola Kingdom (India )
Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan , Kara-Khanid ruler
References
^ Bóna, István (2000). The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries. Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 54. ISBN 963-8312-67-X .
^ Timothy Reuter (1999). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III , p. 248. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8 .
^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518) . Paris: La Découverte; p.28.