854

Year 854 (DCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
854 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar854
DCCCLIV
Ab urbe condita1607
Armenian calendar303
ԹՎ ՅԳ
Assyrian calendar5604
Balinese saka calendar775–776
Bengali calendar261
Berber calendar1804
Buddhist calendar1398
Burmese calendar216
Byzantine calendar6362–6363
Chinese calendar癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
3550 or 3490
     to 
甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
3551 or 3491
Coptic calendar570–571
Discordian calendar2020
Ethiopian calendar846–847
Hebrew calendar4614–4615
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat910–911
 - Shaka Samvat775–776
 - Kali Yuga3954–3955
Holocene calendar10854
Iranian calendar232–233
Islamic calendar239–240
Japanese calendarNinju 4 / Saikō 1
(斉衡元年)
Javanese calendar751–752
Julian calendar854
DCCCLIV
Korean calendar3187
Minguo calendar1058 before ROC
民前1058年
Nanakshahi calendar−614
Seleucid era1165/1166 AG
Thai solar calendar1396–1397
Tibetan calendar阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
980 or 599 or −173
     to 
阳木狗年
(male Wood-Dog)
981 or 600 or −172
Queen Osburh reading to her sons Alfred and Æthelred during their boyhood (1913)

Events

Europe

  • Emperor Lothair I meets his (half) brothers (Louis the German and Charles the Bald) in Attigny, Ardennes for the third time, to continue the system of "con-fraternal government".
  • Viking chieftains Rorik and Godfrid Haraldsson return to Denmark, to gain power after the death of King Horik I. During a civil war, they are forced to go back to Friesland.[1]
  • The German city of Ulm is first mentioned, in a document by Louis the German. [2]
  • Croatian–Bulgarian battle: Bulgarian Khan (later Knyaz) Boris I,[3] attacks the Duchy of Littoral Croatia, ruled by Duke Trpimir I during the First Croatian-Bulgarian War. It is fought on the Croatian territory in the vicinity of the Croatian–Bulgarian border[4] in present-day northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. None of warring sides emerges victorious, Bulgarian forces retreat and finally both parties subsequently conclude a peace treaty.[5]

Britain

  • King Æthelwulf of Wessex sends his two youngest sons, Alfred and Æthelred, on a pilgrimage to Rome.[6]
  • King Æthelweard of East Anglia dies, and is succeeded by his 14-year-old son Edmund ("the Martyr").[7]
  • King Cyngen of Powys makes the first pilgrimage to Rome of a Welsh ruler.
  • Viking chieftain Ubba winters in Milford Haven (Wales) with 23 ships.[8]

Religion

  • Eardulf becomes bishop of Lindisfarne, after the death of Eanbert.

Births

Deaths

  • Abu Thawr, Muslim scholar (b. 764)
  • Æthelweard, king of East Anglia
  • Eanbert, bishop of Lindisfarne
  • Horik I, Viking king of Denmark
  • Luidger, bishop of Utrecht (approximate date)
  • Osburh, queen of Wessex (approximate date)
  • Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 855)
  • Túathal mac Máele-Brigte, king of Leinster
  • Wang Yuankui, Chinese general (b. 812)
  • Wigmund, archbishop of York

References

  1. Norsemen in the Low Countries: Extracts from the Annales Bertiniani, 855 entry Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Zeit.de: Das Alter der Städte
  3. "Boris I". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. November 13, 2021.
  4. Fine, John van Antwerp (November 13, 2021). The Early Medieval Balkans, page 112. The University of Michigan Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0472081493.
  5. Deliso, Christopher (November 13, 2021). The History of Croatia and Slovenia, page 46. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020, Santa Barbara, California. ISBN 9781440873232.
  6. ASC 854 - English translation at Project Gutenberg
  7. Kirby, The Earliest English Kings, p. 161.
  8. Milford Haven Town Council website History, Chronology of Events Archived March 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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