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Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke

Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy

Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy

Events Before

  1. Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona

    Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona

  2. Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin

    Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin

  3. East France and West France recognize each other in the Treaty of Bonn

    East France and West France recognize each other in the Treaty of Bonn

  4. Kingdom of the West Franks crowns Robert I as King of West Francia, after deposing Charles the Simple (Charles III)

    In medieval historiography, West Francia (Medieval Latin: Francia occidentalis) or the Kingdom of the West Franks (Latin: regnum Francorum occidentalium) constitutes the initial stage of the Kingdom...

  5. Richarius becomes bishop of Liège

    Richarius becomes bishop of Liège

Events After

  1. Aethelstan crowned King of the Anglo Saxons by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames

    Æthelstan or Athelstan was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn.

  2. Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia

    Simeon I the Great was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from 893 until his death in 927.

  3. King Aethelstan is the first southern English king to gain control of much of the north of Britain when various local ki

    King Aethelstan is the first southern English king to gain control of much of the north of Britain when various local kings accept his overlordship at Eamont, Cumbria

  4. The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto (southern Italy)

    The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto (southern Italy)

  5. Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.

    Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.

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