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AD 1144: Siege of Edessa: Seljuk forces led by Imad al-Din Zengi conquer the fortress city of Edessa after a four-week siege.

AD 1140: Battle of Yancheng: Chinese forces under the command of Yue Fei defeat a numerically superior Jin army led by Wuzhu.

AD 1135: Caliph Al-Mustarshid is assassinated at Baghdad after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Al-Rashid Billah as ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.

AD 1103: The Champa army, under king Jaya Indravarman II, raided Đại Việt's border and launched battles to retake three provinces in the Địa Lý regions.

AD 1100: Antipope Clement III dies at Civita Castellana after a 20-year reign in opposition to the legitimate popes Gregory VII, Victor III and Urban II. Supporters of Emperor Henry IV in Rome choose Theodoric as his successor.

AD 1043: The Qingli Reforms were put forth by Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan.

AD 1022: After the Council of Orléans, King Robert II of France burns thirteen heretics at Orléans.

AD 983: One of the Four Great Books of Song, the encyclopedia Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era is completed in 1,000 volumes, of 4.7 million written Chinese characters.

AD 966: The Hungarians invade the Bulgarian Empire and force Peter I, emperor of the Bulgarians, to conclude a peace treaty with them.

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AD 932: Prince Edwin, the youngest son of the late King Edward the Elder, is drowned en route to the West Frankish Kingdom and buried at Saint-Bertin.

AD 931: The Ummayad Caliphate of Córdoba invades and conquers the city of Ceuta, which was ruled by the Berber dynasty Banu Isam.

AD 929: Pope Leo VI dies at Rome after a 7-month reign. He is succeeded by Stephen VII as the 124th pope of the Catholic Church.

AD 926: Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Bulgarian forces under Duke Alogobotur are ambushed and defeated by a Croatian army of King Tomislav, in the mountainous area of Eastern Bosnia.

AD 921: On 7 November, the Treaty of Bonn was signed between Charles III of France and Henry I of Germany in a minimalist ceremony aboard a ship in the middle of the Rhine not far from Bonn, recognizing the border between their two Frankish kingdoms.

AD 919: Following his death, Mara Takla Haymanot is succeeded by his eldest son Tatadim as ruler of the Zagwe Dynasty in Ethiopia.

AD 882: Pope John VIII is assassinated at Rome after a 10-year reign.

AD 877: Photius I is reinstated as patriarch of Constantinople, after the death of Ignatius.

AD 853: The Fraumünster Church in Zürich (modern Switzerland) is founded by Louis the German.

AD 851: The Great Mosque of Samarra (modern Iraq) is completed during the reign of Caliph Al-Mutawakkil.

AD 849: The Battle of Ostia, a naval battle between an Italian league of Papal, Neapolitan, Amalfitan, and Gaetan ships and a Muslim fleet, ended in an Italian victory, bringing an end to the period of Muslim military incursions in Rome.

AD 846: The Arab raid against Rome took place, with plundering taking place in the outskirts of the city, but the city proper being protected by the Aurelian Walls.

AD 843: The Treaty of Verdun was signed, ending the Carolingian civil war and dividing the Carolingian Empire between Lothair I, Louis II and Charles II, the surviving sons of the emperor Louis I.

AD 833: Emperor Junna abdicates the throne, after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his nephew Nimmyō, as the 54th emperor of Japan.

AD 831: The last major revolt by Copts against Abbasid rule in Egypt took place in the Bashmur region in the north of the Nile Delta.

AD 829: Emperor Michael II dies after an 8-year reign in Constantinople, and is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Theophilos, as sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

AD 827: Emperor Jing Zong is assassinated by a group of conspirators. He is succeeded by his brother Wen Zong, as ruler of the Tang Dynasty.

AD 825: Battle of Ellandun: King Egbert of Wessex defeats Beornwulf of Mercia near Swindon.

Yes I now have a negative nobel prize

looking back at my old posts in this thread...