845

Year 845 (DCCCXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
845 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar845
DCCCXLV
Ab urbe condita1598
Armenian calendar294
ԹՎ ՄՂԴ
Assyrian calendar5595
Balinese saka calendar766–767
Bengali calendar252
Berber calendar1795
Buddhist calendar1389
Burmese calendar207
Byzantine calendar6353–6354
Chinese calendar甲子年 (Wood Rat)
3541 or 3481
     to 
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
3542 or 3482
Coptic calendar561–562
Discordian calendar2011
Ethiopian calendar837–838
Hebrew calendar4605–4606
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat901–902
 - Shaka Samvat766–767
 - Kali Yuga3945–3946
Holocene calendar10845
Iranian calendar223–224
Islamic calendar230–231
Japanese calendarJōwa 12
(承和12年)
Javanese calendar742–743
Julian calendar845
DCCCXLV
Korean calendar3178
Minguo calendar1067 before ROC
民前1067年
Nanakshahi calendar−623
Seleucid era1156/1157 AG
Thai solar calendar1387–1388
Tibetan calendar阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
971 or 590 or −182
     to 
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
972 or 591 or −181
Viking long ships besieging Paris (845)

Events

Byzantine Empire

Europe

  • March 28 or 29 (Easter) Siege of Paris: Viking forces under the Norse chieftain Ragnar Lodbrok enter the River Seine, with a fleet of 120 longships (5,000 men). They pass through the city of Rouen and plunder the countryside. King Charles the Bald assembles an army and sends it to protect Paris, the capital of the West Frankish Kingdom. Ragnar routs the enemy forces, and hangs 111 of their prisoners in honour of Odin.[3] Charles — to keep them from plundering his kingdom — pays a large tribute of 7,000 livres (pounds) of silver or gold, in exchange for their leaving.[4] The Vikings also sack the cities of Hamburg and Melun.
  • November 22 Battle of Ballon: Frankish forces (3,000 men) led by Charles the Bald are defeated by Nominoe, count of Vannes, near Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine. After the battle, Brittany becomes a regnum 'kingdom' within the Frankish Empire.
  • Viking forces destroy Hamburg.

Asia

Religion

  • John Scotus Eriugena, Irish theologian, travels to France and takes over the Palatine Academy in Paris, at the invitation of Charles the Bald (approximate date).

Births

  • August 1 Sugawara no Michizane, Japanese politician (d. 903)
  • Árpád, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (approximate date)
  • Berengar I, king of Italy (approximate date)
  • Charles of Provence, Frankish king (d. 863)
  • Liutgard of Saxony, Frankish queen (approximate date)
  • Minamoto no Yoshiari, Japanese official (d. 897)
  • Ricfried, Frankish nobleman (d. 950)
  • Richilde of Provence, Frankish empress (approximate date)

Deaths

  • February 22 Wang, empress and concubine of Mu Zong
  • Abdallah ibn Tahir, Muslim governor (or 844)
  • Abu Tammam, Muslim poet (b. 788)
  • Bridei VII, king of the Picts
  • Dionysius I, Syrian patriarch
  • Ecgred, bishop of Lindisfarne
  • Eginhard, bishop of Utrecht
  • Guerin, Frankish nobleman (or 856)
  • Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, Muslim historian (b. 784)
  • Mislav, duke of Croatia (approximate date)
  • Sahl ibn Bishr, Muslim astrologer (approximate date)
  • Theophanes the Branded, Byzantine monk (b. 775)
  • Turgesius, Viking chieftain (approximate date)

References

  1. Huart 1986, p. 647.
  2. Toynbee 1973, p. 391.
  3. Jones 2001, p. 212.
  4. Sawyer 2001, p. 40.

Sources

  • Huart, Cl. (1986). "Lamas-Ṣū". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume V: Khe–Mahi. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 647. ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2.
  • Jones, Gwyn (2001). A History of the Vikings. Oxford University. ISBN 978-0-19-280134-0.
  • Sawyer, PH (2001). Illustrated History of the Vikings. Oxford University. ISBN 978-0-19-285434-6.
  • Toynbee, Arnold (1973). Constantine Porphyrogenitus and His World. London and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-215253-X.


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