847

Year 847 (DCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
847 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar847
DCCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita1600
Armenian calendar296
ԹՎ ՄՂԶ
Assyrian calendar5597
Balinese saka calendar768–769
Bengali calendar254
Berber calendar1797
Buddhist calendar1391
Burmese calendar209
Byzantine calendar6355–6356
Chinese calendar丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
3543 or 3483
     to 
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3544 or 3484
Coptic calendar563–564
Discordian calendar2013
Ethiopian calendar839–840
Hebrew calendar4607–4608
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat903–904
 - Shaka Samvat768–769
 - Kali Yuga3947–3948
Holocene calendar10847
Iranian calendar225–226
Islamic calendar232–233
Japanese calendarJōwa 14
(承和14年)
Javanese calendar744–745
Julian calendar847
DCCCXLVII
Korean calendar3180
Minguo calendar1065 before ROC
民前1065年
Nanakshahi calendar−621
Seleucid era1158/1159 AG
Thai solar calendar1389–1390
Tibetan calendar阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
973 or 592 or −180
     to 
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
974 or 593 or −179
Pope Leo IV (790–855)

Events

Europe

  • Danish Vikings land in the Breton March (western part of Gaul). Duke Nominoe of Brittany fails to withstand them in battle, but succeeds in buying them off with gifts and persuading them to leave (approximate date).
  • Viking period: The Vikings plunder the Lower Rhine, as part of their attacks on the Empire of Francia.
  • The Saracens, under the Berber leader Kalfun, capture the Byzantine city of Bari (Southern Italy). He becomes the first ruler of the Emirate of Bari, and expands his influence on the Italian mainland with raids.[1]

Abbasid Caliphate

  • August 10 Caliph Al-Wathiq dies of dropsy after a five-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother al-Mutawakkil.
Death of Abbasid caliph Al-Wathiq, He died as the result of dropsy [2] on 10 August 847. He was succeeded by his brother al-Mutawakkil.

Natural events

Religion

Births

  • Æthelred I, king of Wessex (approximate date)
  • Al-Mu'tazz, Muslim caliph (d. 869)
  • Charles the Child, king of Aquitaine (or 848)
  • Cheng Ji, Chinese general (approximate date)
  • Fujiwara no Sukeyo, Japanese aristocrat (d. 897)
  • Kang Junli, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 894)
  • Lu Yi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 905)
  • Miyoshi Kiyotsura, Japanese scholar (d. 918)
  • Wang Jian, emperor of Former Shu (d. 918)
  • Wang Jingchong, Chinese general (d. 883)

Deaths

References

Citations

  1. Kreutz, p. 38.
  2. Kennedy 2006, p. 232.

Bibliography

  • Kennedy, Hugh (2006). When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306814808.
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