807

Year 807 (DCCCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
807 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar807
DCCCVII
Ab urbe condita1560
Armenian calendar256
ԹՎ ՄԾԶ
Assyrian calendar5557
Balinese saka calendar728–729
Bengali calendar214
Berber calendar1757
Buddhist calendar1351
Burmese calendar169
Byzantine calendar6315–6316
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3503 or 3443
     to 
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3504 or 3444
Coptic calendar523–524
Discordian calendar1973
Ethiopian calendar799–800
Hebrew calendar4567–4568
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat863–864
 - Shaka Samvat728–729
 - Kali Yuga3907–3908
Holocene calendar10807
Iranian calendar185–186
Islamic calendar191–192
Japanese calendarDaidō 2
(大同2年)
Javanese calendar703–704
Julian calendar807
DCCCVII
Korean calendar3140
Minguo calendar1105 before ROC
民前1105年
Nanakshahi calendar−661
Seleucid era1118/1119 AG
Thai solar calendar1349–1350
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
933 or 552 or −220
     to 
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
934 or 553 or −219
Coin of king Cuthred of Kent (798–807)

Events

Abbasid Empire and Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Nikephoros I is forced to sue for peace, on condition of paying 50,000 nomismata to Caliph Harun al-Rashid, and agrees to a yearly tribute. Nikephoros promises not to rebuild the dismantled forts. Rashid recalls his forces from various sieges, and evacuates Byzantine territory.[1][2][3]
Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) the Commander-in-chief and caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. He was the Arab leader of the Caliphate–Byzantine wars in the late 8th and early 9th century.

Europe

  • Al-Andalus (modern Spain): An uprising occurs in the city of Mérida against the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba.[5]
  • Siege of Patras: This marks the end of independent rule by the South Slavs in the Peloponnese (or 805).

Britain

  • The Vikings land on the Cornish coast, and form an alliance with the Cornish to fight against Wessex.
  • King Cuthred of Kent dies. His brother, King Coenwulf of Mercia, takes control over Kent himself.

Asia

  • Dappula II becomes king of Sri Lanka, and makes Anuradhapura the capital city.
  • Li Jifu is appointed chancellor, during the reign of Emperor Xian Zong in China.

Religion

  • The Temple of Motoyama-ji in Mitoyo (Japan), of the Kōyasan Shingon-shū sect, is constructed by the orders of Emperor Heizei.
  • The Jame' Atiq Mosque of Qazvin is constructed in Qazvin (modern Iran), by the orders of Harun al-Rashid.
  • The Book of Armagh is written by the Irish illuminator Ferdomnach, a scribe at the School of Armagh.

Science

Births

  • Dongshan Liangjie, Chinese Buddhist teacher (d. 869)

Deaths

  • October 13 Simpert, bishop of Augsburg
  • Conall mac Taidg, king of the Picts (approximate date)
  • Cuthred, king of Kent
  • Robert II, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
  • Stephen the Hymnographer, Syrian monk (b. 725)
  • Widukind, duke of Saxony (approximate date)

References

  1. Bosworth 1989, p. 263
  2. Treadgold 1988, pp. 145, 408 (Note 190).
  3. Mango & Scott 1997, p. 662.
  4. Treadgold 1988, p. 148.
  5. Rucquoi 1993, p. 85.

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.
  • Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique (in French). Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
  • Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.
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