Editing 936 (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===

==== Europe ====
* [[June 19]] &ndash; At [[Laon]], [[Louis IV of France|Louis IV]], the 14-year old son of the late King [[Charles the Simple]], is crowned [[List of French monarchs|King of West Francia]] after being recalled from [[Wessex]] by [[Hugh the Great]], count of [[Paris]].  Hugh, whose father, King [[Robert I of France|Robert I]], was killed in battle near [[Soissons]] in [[923]], is given the title [[Duke of the Franks]] and becomes the second most powerful man in the [[West Francia|West Frankish Kingdom]].  The crowning of Louis IV follows the death of King [[Rudolph of France|Rudolph I]] at [[Auxerre]] earlier in the year.
* Summer &ndash; [[Hugh of Italy|Hugh of Provence]], king of [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Italy]], dispatches his son and co-ruler [[Lothair II of Italy|Lothair II]] with a third expedition to [[Rome]] to dislodge [[Alberic II of Spoleto|Alberic II]]. Assault after assault is repulsed by the Roman civic [[militia]]. At length, weakened by an [[epidemic]], the [[Lombardy|Lombard]] nobles press on Hugh to accept a peace treaty mediated by [[Odo of Cluny]].
* [[July 2]] &ndash; King [[Henry the Fowler|Henry I]] ("the Fowler") dies at his [[Kaiserpfalz|royal palace]] in [[Memleben]], [[Thuringia]], after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his 23-year-old son [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto I]], who is married to [[Eadgyth]], a daughter of the late King [[Edward the Elder]]. Otto is the first German king to be crowned in [[Charlemagne]]'s former capital of [[Aachen]].
* A [[Principality of Hungary|Hungarian]] army invades [[Franconia]] and occupies [[Fulda]]. They are attacked by [[East Francia|East Frankish]] forces and forced to go westwards. Otto I moves against the rebellious [[Elbe]] Slavs.<ref>Timothy Reuter (1999). ''The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III'', p. 244. {{ISBN|978-0-521-36447-8}}.</ref>
* Archbishop [[Unni (bishop)|Unni]] of [[Archbishopric of Bremen|Hamburg-Bremen]] visits the king of Denmark [[Gorm the Old|Gorm]] and the king of the [[Swedes (Germanic tribe)|Swedes]] [[Ring of Sweden|Ring]] before he dies in [[Birka]].

==== England ====
* King [[Æthelstan]] sets the border between the [[Kingdom of England]] and [[Cornwall]] as the east bank of the [[River Tamar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5042 |title=Cornwall timeline 936 |publisher=[[Cornwall Council]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930154026/http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5042 |archive-date=September 30, 2008  }}</ref>

==== Africa ====
* Spring &ndash; [[Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid]], ruler of [[Egypt in the Middle Ages|Egypt]] and [[Bilad al-Sham|Syria]], defeats the [[Fatimid Caliphate|Fatimid]] forces near [[Alexandria]]. He drives them out of the city, forcing the Fatimids to retreat from Egypt to their base at [[Cyrenaica]]. 

==== Arabian Empire ====
* Summer &ndash; [[Ibn Muqla]], an [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] official and [[vizier]], is disgraced after his failed campaign against [[Muhammad ibn Ra'iq]], the rebellious governor of [[Wasit, Iraq|Wasit]]. He is arrested and imprisoned in [[Baghdad]].

==== China ====
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[Shi Jingtang]] is enthroned as the first emperor of the [[Later Jin (Five Dynasties)|Later Jin]] by [[Emperor Taizong of Liao|Tai Zong]], ruler of the [[Khitan people|Khitan]]-led [[Liao dynasty|Liao Dynasty]], following a revolt against his rival, emperor [[Li Congke|Fei]] of [[Later Tang]].

=== By topic ===

==== Religion ====
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo VII]] succeeds [[Pope John XI|John XI]] (who died the previous year) as the 126th [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]].
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