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Eventos

14 de junio – Eufemio , almirante bizantino exiliado, pide ayuda a los árabes del norte de África para recuperar Sicilia y Malta de los bizantinos. ^{[ 1 ]} El emir Ziyadat Allah I de Ifriqiya promete devolver las islas a Eufemio a cambio de un tributo anual y envía una fuerza expedicionaria árabe musulmana de 10.000 hombres al mando del anciano Asad ibn al-Furat , de 70 años , que desembarca en Mazara del Vallo en Sicilia.
Otoño – Sitio de Siracusa : Las fuerzas musulmanas al mando de Asad ibn al-Furat, en apoyo del ejército bizantino rebelde, asedian Siracusa, Sicilia . ^{[ 2 ]}

Summer –Omurtag, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, launches an attack to the West, and penetrates into Pannonia. He expels the local chiefs, and installs Bulgar governors over the Slavic tribes to control them. Omurtag conquers the cities of Beograd, Braničevo, Sirmium, and most of eastern Slavonia.^[3]
Giustiniano Participazio deposes his younger brother Giovanni I, and is appointed doge of Venice. Giovanni, who is part of a pro-Frankish faction, is exiled to Zara (modern Croatia).

Æthelstan establishes himself as king of East Anglia, after killing King Ludeca of Mercia in battle. Ludeca is succeeded by Wiglaf, father-in-law (and probably distant cousin) of the late king Ceolwulf I's daughter.

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

August 27–Pope Eugene II dies after a 3-year reign, and is succeeded by Valentine as the 100th pope of the Catholic Church.
October 10– Pope Valentine dies just after a two-month reign, and is succeeded by Gregory IV as the 101st pope of Rome.

Khalid ibn Abd al-Malik al-Marwarrudhi and Ali ibn Isa al-Asturlabi travel to the Plain of Sinjar (modern Iraq), under orders of Caliph Al-Ma'mun, to measure the size of the Earth.

The Saracens, who found spinach originally in Persia (modern Iran), introduce the plant to Sicily.^[4]

↑ Peter Sammartino y William Roberts, Sicilia: Una historia informal , pág. 43.
^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-árabe au repli (658-1518) . París: La Découverte; pag. 23.
↑ John VA Fine, Jr. (1991). Los Balcanes altomedievales: Un estudio crítico desde el siglo VI hasta finales del siglo XII , pág. 107. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3.
↑ Rolland, Jacques L.; Sherman, Carol (2006). La enciclopedia de la comida . Toronto: Robert Rose. págs. 335–338 . ISBN 978-0-778-80150-4.