804

Year 804 (DCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
804 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar804
DCCCIV
Ab urbe condita1557
Armenian calendar253
ԹՎ ՄԾԳ
Assyrian calendar5554
Balinese saka calendar725–726
Bengali calendar211
Berber calendar1754
Buddhist calendar1348
Burmese calendar166
Byzantine calendar6312–6313
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
3500 or 3440
     to 
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3501 or 3441
Coptic calendar520–521
Discordian calendar1970
Ethiopian calendar796–797
Hebrew calendar4564–4565
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat860–861
 - Shaka Samvat725–726
 - Kali Yuga3904–3905
Holocene calendar10804
Iranian calendar182–183
Islamic calendar188–189
Japanese calendarEnryaku 23
(延暦23年)
Javanese calendar699–700
Julian calendar804
DCCCIV
Korean calendar3137
Minguo calendar1108 before ROC
民前1108年
Nanakshahi calendar−664
Seleucid era1115/1116 AG
Thai solar calendar1346–1347
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
930 or 549 or −223
     to 
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
931 or 550 or −222
The Gymnasium Carolinum in Osnabrück

Events

Abbasid Caliphate

  • Battle of Krasos: Emperor Nikephoros I refuses to pay the tribute imposed by Caliph Harun al-Rashid of the Abbasid Caliphate. A Muslim-Arab expeditionary force invades Asia Minor. During a surprise attack, Nikephoros suffers a major defeat against the Saracens at Krasos in Phrygia. According to Arabian sources, the Byzantines lose 40,700 men and 4,000 pack animals, while Nikephoros himself is almost killed, but saved by the bravery of his officers.[1][2]
  • Marriage of Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid with Abbasa, the daughter of Abbasid prince and official Sulayman.

Europe

  • Summer Emperor Charlemagne finishes the conquest of Saxony. The Carolingian administration in the north is restored and the diocese of Bremen is re-established.[3] Venice, torn by infighting, switches allegiance from Constantinople to King Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne.
  • Obelerio degli Antenori becomes the ninth doge of Venice, after his predecessor Giovanni Galbaio flees to Mantua, where he is killed.
  • The Gymnasium Carolinum in Osnabrück is founded by Charlemagne (the oldest school in Germany).[4]

Asia

  • Kūkai, Japanese Buddhist monk, travels in a government-sponsored expedition to China, in order to learn more about the Mahavairocana Sutra. He brings back texts of Shingon (Esoteric Buddhism).
  • Priest Saichō, patriarch of Tendai Buddhism, visits China and reportedly brings back tea seeds (or 805).
  • The Inscription of Sukabumi from Eastern Java marks the beginning of the Javanese language.

Religion

Births

  • Bayazid Bastami, Persian Sufi (d. 874)
  • Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Japanese regent (d. 872)

Deaths

  • May 19 Alcuin, bishop and advisor to Charlemagne
  • October 1 Richbod, archbishop of Trier
  • Saint Abundantia, Christian saint
  • Giovanni Galbaio, doge of Venice (approximate date)
  • Ibrahim al-Mawsili, musician and singer (b. 742)
  • Lu Yu, Chinese author of The Classic of Tea (b. 733)
  • Ragnar Lothbrok Legendary Norse Viking hero and Scandinavian King.

References

  1. Bosworth 1989, p. 248; Mango & Scott 1997, p. 660
  2. Treadgold 1988, p. 135
  3. Nicolle 2014, p. 83.
  4. The building of the Gymnasium Carolinum, Osnabrück Archived May 19, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Accessed October 2008

Sources

  • Bosworth, C. E., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXX: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Mūsā al-Hādī and Hārūn al-Rashīd, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–192. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-564-4.
  • Mango, Cyril; Scott, Roger (1997). The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284–813. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822568-7.
  • Nicolle, David (2014). The Conquest of Saxony AD 782–785. ISBN 978-1-78200-825-5.
  • Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.
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