821

Year 821 (DCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
821 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar821
DCCCXXI
Ab urbe condita1574
Armenian calendar270
ԹՎ ՄՀ
Assyrian calendar5571
Balinese saka calendar742–743
Bengali calendar228
Berber calendar1771
Buddhist calendar1365
Burmese calendar183
Byzantine calendar6329–6330
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3517 or 3457
     to 
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
3518 or 3458
Coptic calendar537–538
Discordian calendar1987
Ethiopian calendar813–814
Hebrew calendar4581–4582
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat877–878
 - Shaka Samvat742–743
 - Kali Yuga3921–3922
Holocene calendar10821
Iranian calendar199–200
Islamic calendar205–206
Japanese calendarKōnin 12
(弘仁12年)
Javanese calendar717–718
Julian calendar821
DCCCXXI
Korean calendar3154
Minguo calendar1091 before ROC
民前1091年
Nanakshahi calendar−647
Seleucid era1132/1133 AG
Thai solar calendar1363–1364
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
947 or 566 or −206
     to 
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
948 or 567 or −205
Thomas the Slav captures cities in Anatolia

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Byzantine general Thomas the Slav leads a revolt and secures control over most of the Byzantine themes (provinces) in Anatolia. He gets recognition from the Abbasid Caliphate, and concludes a peace treaty with Caliph al-Ma'mun. Thomas crosses with his fleet from Abydos to Thrace, and blockades Emperor Michael II in Constantinople; but Thomas' first attack on the capital fails.

Europe

  • February Duke Borna of Croatia dies after an 11-year reign, as vassal of the Frankish Empire. He is succeeded by his nephew, Vladislav.[1] Emperor Louis I recognizes him as prince of Dalmatia and Liburnia, at the Council of Aachen.
  • October Lothair I, co-emperor and eldest son of Louis I, marries Ermengarde in Thionville (northeastern France). She is the daughter of Count Hugh of Tours.

Britain

  • King Coenwulf of Mercia dies in Basingwerk near Holywell (Wales), while preparing for another assault on Powys, and is buried in Winchcombe Abbey. He is briefly succeeded by his son Cynehelm, but he is killed, probably fighting the Welsh, though supposedly through the treachery of his sister Cwenthryth. The Mercian throne passes to Coenwulf's brother, Ceolwulf I.

Abbasid Caliphate

  • By the time Al-Ma'mun became caliph, the Arabs and the Byzantines had settled down into border skirmishing, with Arab raids deep into Anatolia to capture booty.
  • Tahir ibn Husayn, an Iranian general, is appointed as governor of Khurasan, as a reward for supporting the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun in the Fourth Fitna.
  • Caliph Al-Ma'mun appointed Nu'aym ibn al-Waddah al-Azdi as the governor of Yemen in 821.

Births

Deaths

  • April 7 George the Standard-Bearer, archbishop of Mytilene (b. c. 776)
  • May 2 Liu Zong, general of the Tang Dynasty
  • December 18 Theodulf, bishop of Orléans
  • Arno, archbishop of Salzburg
  • Artrí mac Cathail, king of Munster (Ireland)
  • Benedict of Aniane, Frankish monk
  • Borna, duke (knez) of Croatia
  • Coenwulf, king of Mercia
  • Egbert, bishop of Lindisfarne
  • Guisclafred, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
  • Li Su, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 773)
  • Tian Hongzheng, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 764)
  • Wei Guanzhi, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 760)
  • Zheng Yuqing, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 746)

References

  1. Mladjov, Ian. "Croatian Rulers" (PDF). Retrieved May 21, 2011.
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