Li Maozhen's holdings in the Guanzhong region, with Fengxiang under siege, fall one by one to Zhu, while Shannan West and nearby holdings fall to Wang.

Still, Fengxiang's defenses are holding, and by fall 902, Zhu, with his attacks hampered by rains and illnesses to the soldiers, is considering a withdrawal.

A trap advocated by and set by Zhu's officer Gao Jichang, however, induces Li Maozhen to send his troops outside the city walls to attack Zhu's troops, where they are crushed by Zhu's troops.

From this point on, Li Maozhen can no longer fight back against Zhu, and by winter 902, Fengxiang is in such a desperate shape such that the residents are resorting to cannibalism.

The Nanzhao dynasty is overthrown in 902, and will be followed by three dynasties in quick succession before the establishment of the Kingdom of Dali in 937.

Yang Xingmi, the founder of Wu, had started his career as a volunteer soldier before seizing power in his home prefecture Luzhou in a military coup.

The weak Tang court could only confirm his position.

The governor of Huainan, Gao Pian, had been captured in 887 by Bi Shiduo.

Xingmi had defeated Shiduo and captured the provincial capital Yangzhou later that year, but by then Pian had been put to death by Shiduo.

Another rebel leader, Sun Ru, had had Shiduo killed and absorbed his forces.

Yang Xingmi was forced to abandon Yangzhou and retreat to Luzhou.

With Luzhou as his base, Xingmi had increased his power by seizing neighboring prefectures until he could recapture Yangzhou in 892.

For this, the Tang court had granted him the military governorship of Huainan.

While still nominally loyal to the Tang dynasty, rival warlords are now carving out their own statelets.

Yang Xingmi had clashed with Zhu Wen of Liang in the north and Qian Liu of Wuyue in the south, successfully defending his territory.

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang names Yang Xingmi Prince of Wu in 902.

The tribal supporters of the ailing imam are unreliable, and he eventually leaves the city to its fate in 902, being carried back to Sa'dah in a litter.

Abu 'Abdullah Al-Shi'i, born in Kufa in Iraq (or Sanaa, according to some accounts) had been active in the administration of the Abbasid Caliphate, before he began to associate with Ismaili teachers.

At first he had proselytized under the guidance of Ibn Hawshab in Yemen and Mecca.

During a pilgrimage to Mecca in 892, he had met some Kutama Berbers that boasted of their independence and autonomy from the Aghlabids.

Sensing an opportunity, al-Shi'i had decided to follow their invitation to the Maghrib, where he had arrived in 893.

Abdallah II, who takes over the Emirate of Ifriqiya after his father Abu Ishaq Ibrahim II is forced to abdicate in 902 after a tyrannical rule, immediately sets about trying to reduce the autonomy of the Kutama Berbers in order to stop the Ismailite mission of al-Shi'i, without success, however.

Amr ibn al-Layth on April 20, 902, is executed in Baghdad on the orders of the caliph's vizier, al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah.

Constantinople, absent the generalship of Nikephorus Phocas the Elder, meets with reverses in the West.

Taormina had continued after the fall of the Western Roman Empire to rank as one of the more important towns of Sicily, and because of the strength of its position was one of the last places that was retained by the Eastern Roman emperors; but the Aghlabid army takes it on August 1, 902, after a siege of two years.

The Islamic conquest of Sicily is complete.

Most of al-Jazira is back under the central government's authority by the end of Al-Mu'tadid’s reign in October 902.

Kharijite rebel activity in the province will subsequently taper off, with only one further revolt in 929 being recorded.

Al-Mu'tadid is succeeded by his designated heir, al-Muktafi, whom his father had taken care to prepare for his role as governor in Rayy and the Jazira.

Al-Mu'tadid's reign is credited with having arrested the Abbasid Caliphate's decline for a while, but his successes were overly dependent on the presence of an energetic ruler at the helm.

Æthelwold in 901 had sailed with a fleet to Essex.

He persuades the Danes in East Anglia in 902 to wage war against Edward and joins them in a raid on Mercia and Wessex.

Edward retaliates by ravaging the southern Danelaw, but when he withdraws, the men of Kent refuse to obey the order to retreat.

They meet the Danes in East Anglia on December 13 at the Battle of the Holme.

Its location is unknown but may be Holme in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire).

The Danes are victorious but suffer the heavier losses.

Æthelwold is among the leaders on the Danish side who are killed, as is a King Eohric, possibly of the East Anglian Danes.

Relations with the North for the next several years will prove problematic for Edward.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions that he made peace with the East Anglian and Northumbrian Danes "of necessity".

Li Maozhen sues for peace with Zhu in spring 903, surrendering Emperor Zhaozong and the imperial household to him while killing Han and the other leading eunuchs, as well as Li Jiyun, Li Jihui, and Li Yanbi.