822

Year 822 (DCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
822 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar822
DCCCXXII
Ab urbe condita1575
Armenian calendar271
ԹՎ ՄՀԱ
Assyrian calendar5572
Balinese saka calendar743–744
Bengali calendar229
Berber calendar1772
Buddhist calendar1366
Burmese calendar184
Byzantine calendar6330–6331
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
3518 or 3458
     to 
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
3519 or 3459
Coptic calendar538–539
Discordian calendar1988
Ethiopian calendar814–815
Hebrew calendar4582–4583
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat878–879
 - Shaka Samvat743–744
 - Kali Yuga3922–3923
Holocene calendar10822
Iranian calendar200–201
Islamic calendar206–207
Japanese calendarKōnin 13
(弘仁13年)
Javanese calendar718–719
Julian calendar822
DCCCXXII
Korean calendar3155
Minguo calendar1090 before ROC
民前1090年
Nanakshahi calendar−646
Seleucid era1133/1134 AG
Thai solar calendar1364–1365
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
948 or 567 or −205
     to 
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
949 or 568 or −204
Emperor Louis I doing penance at Attigny

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantine general and usurper Thomas the Slav continues his revolt against Emperor Michael II. He unsuccessfully besieges Constantinople, while his fleet is destroyed by Michael's fleet, using Greek fire.
  • Battle of Kedouktos (near Heraclea): Khan Omurtag of Bulgaria sends a relief army, and defeats the Byzantine rebels. [1][2][3]

Europe

  • Emperor Louis I performs public penance for causing his nephew Bernard's death 4 years earlier, at his palace of Attigny (Ardennes), before Pope Paschal I, and the Frankish nobles (this to restore harmony and re-establish his authority).[4]
  • The earliest known mention of the Serbs, in Einhard's Royal Frankish Annals.

Britain

  • King Ceolwulf I of Mercia invades Powys (Wales), but is beaten back by King Cyngen. However, Ceolwulf does destroy the fortress of Deganwy, and later takes the kingdom under his control (approximate date).

Al-Andalus

  • Al-Hakam I, Umayyad emir of Córdoba, dies after a 26-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Abd al-Rahman II, who begins a military campaign against King Alfonso II of Asturias in Al-Andalus (modern Spain).

Asia

  • Kim Heon-chang launches a short-lived rebellion in Silla, which gains control over much of the southern and western Korean Peninsula.

Central America

  • February 6 Ukit Took becomes the last ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city-state Copán (modern Guatemala). After his death in 830, the kingdom is wiped out, most likely from an epidemic.

Religion

  • Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish Benedictine monk, becomes abbot of Fulda, after the death of Eigil.

Births

  • Al-Mutawakkil, Muslim caliph (d. 861)
  • Ibn Abi Asim, Muslim Sunni scholar (or 821)
  • Minamoto no Tōru, Japanese poet (d. 895)
  • Xuefeng Yicun, Chinese Chan master (d. 908)

Deaths

  • June 26 Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 767)
  • Al-Hakam I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (b. 771)
  • Al-Waqidi, Muslim historian and biographer
  • Denebeorht, bishop of Worcester
  • Eigil of Fulda, Bavarian abbot
  • Gregory Pterotos, Byzantine general (strategos)
  • Kim Heon-chang, Silla aristocrat and rebel leader
  • Li Yijian, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 756)
  • Tahir ibn Husayn, founder of the Tahirid Dynasty
  • Tian Bu, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 785)
  • Winiges, duke of Spoleto (Italy)

References

  1. Bury, John Bagnell (1912). A History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (A.D. 802–867). London: Macmillan and Company. pp. 101–102. OCLC 458995052.
  2. Lemerle, Paul (1965). "Thomas le Slave". Travaux et mémoires 1 (in French). Paris: Centre de recherche d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance. pp. 279–281, 291. OCLC 457007063.
  3. Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.
  4. McKitterick, Rosamond, The New Cambridge History, 700-900.
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