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====July &ndash; December====
* [[July 4]] — At the age of 12, [[Shabbethai Donnolo]], who will become one of the most prominent physicians in Italy and the doctor to the Byzantine court, is kidnapped by Arab slavers as a [[Fatimid Caliphate|Fatimid]] expeditionary force, led by Jafar ibn Obeid, lands in [[Abruzzo]] in southern Italy and overruns [[Apulia]] and the city of [[Otranto]]. After defeating the Byzantine [[garrison]]s, the Arabs lay [[siege]] to the castle of [[Oria, Apulia|Oria]] and destroy it, killing the defenders and [[Muslim slave trade|taking the women and children as slaves]] back to [[North Africa]]. Donnolo's family pays a ransom and the Fatimid Amir Abu Ahmad Ja'far ibn 'Ubaid sets him free.<ref>{{JewishEncyclopedia|article=Shabbethai Donnolo|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=439&letter=D|author=Richard Gottheil}}</ref>
* [[August]] — In Spain, [[Fruela II of Asturias|Fruela II]], [[Kingdom of León|King of León]] and [[Kingdom of Galicia|King of Galicia]], dies and is temporarily succeeded by his son, [[Alfonso Fróilaz]].
* [[September 4]] — The coronation of [[Æthelstan]] as [[List of English monarchs|King of the Anglo-Saxons]] (comprising the united kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia) takes place on the island of Britain at [[Kingston upon Thames]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Foot |first=Sarah |title=Æthelstan: The First King of England |date=2011 |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=73–74 |isbn=978-0-30-012535-1 |location=New Haven, Connecticut}}</ref>
* [[September]] — The Chamberlain Ja'far ibn Ubayd of the [[Fatimid Caliphate]] returns to the Fatimid capital of [[Mahdiya]] (now in [[Tunisia]]) after a successful 17-month campaign to pillage the Byzantine-ruled island of [[Sicily]].<ref>Heinz Halm, ''Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden'' [The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids] (in German) (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1991) ISBN 978-3-406-35497-7 pp. 213–214</ref> 
* [[October]] — In Byzantium, [[John Mystikos]], chief minister (''[[paradynasteuon]]''), is deposed by the Emperor Romanos I, flogged, and sent into [[exile]] in a monastery. He is replaced by the chamberlain (''[[protovestiarios]]'') [[Theophanes (chamberlain)|Theophanes]], who becomes the closest adviser of Emperor [[Romanos I Lekapenos|Romanos I]]. At this time the [[Byzantine Empire]] has been embroiled in a [[Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927|protracted and disastrous war]] with Tsar [[Simeon I of Bulgaria]]. 
* [[November]] — In [[Baghdad]] (now in Iraq),[[Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Khaqani]] is dismissed from his position as the [[Vizier (Abbasid Caliphate)|Grand Vizier]] of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]] upon the insistence of the Abassid commander [[Mu'nis al-Muzaffar]].<ref>{{cite book |last=van Berkel |first=Maaike |chapter=The Vizier |pages=65–86 |title=Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |year=2013 |isbn= 978-90-04-25271-4 |chapter-url={{Google Books |cUodAAAAQBAJ |pages=81-83|plainurl=y}}}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] — In [[Pamplona]] in Spain, [[Jimeno Garcés|Jimeno II]] becomes the new [[List of Navarrese monarchs#House of Jiménez, 905–1234|King of Navarre]] in Spain upon the death of his brother, [[Sancho I of Pamplona|King Sancho I]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Martínez Díez|first=Gonzalo|title=Sancho III el Mayor Rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus|year=2007|publisher=Marcial Pons Historia|location=Madrid|language=ES|isbn= 978-84-96467-47-7}}</ref>
* [[December 15]] — At [[Chengdu]], capital of the [[Former Shu]] dynasty state in China, the [[Later Tang]] dynasty generals Li Jiji and Guo Chongtao acccept the surrender of the surviving Shu official, Li Yan, representative of the Shu Emperor [[Wang Zongyan]].<ref name=ZZTJ274/> 
* [[December 28]] — In China, [[Guo Chongtao]], military commander of the [[Later Tang]] dynasty that rules from what is now the [[Henan]] province, has his deputy commanders [[Wang Zongbi]], Wang Zongxun and Wang Zongwo arreted and executed on accusations of disloyalty, after receiving permission from Prince [[Li Jiji]], 13 days after their victory over the Former Shu kingdom.<ref name=ZZTJ274/>
* [[December 30]] — [[Wang Shenzhi]], the Chinese ruler of the [[Min (Ten Kingdoms)|Min Kingdom]] (now part of the [[Fujian]] province, with a capital of [[Fuzhou]]), dies after a long illness and is succeeded by his eldest son, [[Wang Yanhan]].<ref name=ZZTJ274/>