928

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928 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	928 CMXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1681
Armenian calendar	377 ԹՎ ՅՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	5678
Balinese saka calendar	849–850
Bengali calendar	334–335
Berber calendar	1878
Buddhist calendar	1472
Burmese calendar	290
Byzantine calendar	6436–6437
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3625 or 3418 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3626 or 3419
Coptic calendar	644–645
Discordian calendar	2094
Ethiopian calendar	920–921
Hebrew calendar	4688–4689
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	984–985
- Shaka Samvat	849–850
- Kali Yuga	4028–4029
Holocene calendar	10928
Iranian calendar	306–307
Islamic calendar	315–316
Japanese calendar	Enchō 6 (延長６年)
Javanese calendar	827–828
Julian calendar	928 CMXXVIII
Korean calendar	3261
Minguo calendar	984 before ROC 民前984年
Nanakshahi calendar	−540
Seleucid era	1239/1240 AG
Thai solar calendar	1470–1471
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 1054 or 673 or −99 — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 1055 or 674 or −98

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King Rudolph I loses the support of Herbert II, count of Vermandois, who controls the prison at Péronne in which former King Charles III (the Simple) is imprisoned. Herbert brings him before William I (Longsword), count of Rouen, for homage and then to Rheims as leverage to blackmail Rudolph to make him cede sovereignty over Laon (Northern France).
June 5 – Louis III (the Blind), former king of Provence (Lower Burgundy), dies at Arles after a 27-year reign (of which 23 are sightless). He is succeeded by his brother-in-law Hugh I who is King of Italy. With the approval of his kinsman Rudolph I, Hugh strips Louis's son and heir, Charles Constantine, of his inheritance and proclaims himself as ruler of Provence.
Winter – King Henry I (the Fowler) subdues the Polabian Slavs who live on the eastern borders. He then marches against the Slavic Hevelli tribes and seizes their capital, Brandenburg. Henry invades the Glomacze lands in the middle Elbe valley, where he besieges and destroys the main castle called Gana (the later Albrechtsburg) at Meissen (Saxony).^[1]

King Hywel Dda (the Good) of Deheubarth makes a pilgrimage to Rome, he becomes the first Welsh ruler to undertake such a trip. Hywel begins the codification of medieval Welsh law and mints his own coinage.

Summer – A Fatimid fleet under Sabir al-Fata raids Byzantine southern Italy. It captures a locality named al-Ghiran ('the caves') in Apulia and sacks the cities of Taranto and Otranto. The inhabitants are carried off to North Africa as slaves.^[2]

Ishanavarman II dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by his uncle Jayavarman IV as king of the Khmer Empire (modern Cambodia). He moves the capital north from Angkor to Koh Ker.

Summer – Pope John X is deposed and imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo at Rome by order of the Roman senatrix Marozia after a 14-year reign. He is succeeded by Leo VI as the 123rd pope of the Catholic Church.
Leo VI abolishes the Nin Bishopric and transfers bishop Gregory (Croatian: Grgur Ninski) to Skradin. This ends the long running dispute between the Split and Nin Bishoprics in the Croatian kingdom.
July 18 – Tryphon succeeds Stephen II as patriarch of Constantinople (until 931).