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Events

By Place

Asia

Europe

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Asia

★ Oleg leads Kievan Rus' in a campaign against Constantinople (see Rus'-Byzantine War (907))

★ Abaoji named Great Khan of the Khitan.

★ Yelü Abaoji establishes Liao (Khitan) dynasty

★ Fall of the Tang Dynasty

★ Founding of the Later Liang Dynasty by Zhu Wen, the first of northern China's Five Dynasties.

★ Former Shu founded by Wang Jian in Chengdu.

★ Wuyue State founded by Qian Liu in Hangzhou

★ Short-lived Qi State founded in northwest China

★ Founding of the Chernihiv in Ukraine

Europe

★ Bratislava, the present-day capital of Slovakia, was mentioned for the first time in written sources, in reference to the Battle of Bratislava

Births

Deaths

★ May 2 — Bulgarian khan Boris I (ruled 852–889)

★ Unknown date - Hungarian rulling prince Árpád (ruled 895–907)