844
This article is about the year 844. For the locomotive, see Union Pacific 844. For the area code, see Toll-free telephone number.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century · 9th century · 10th century |
| Decades: | 810s · 820s · 830s · 840s · 850s · 860s · 870s |
| Years: | 841 · 842 · 843 · 844 · 845 · 846 · 847 |
| 844 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 844 DCCCXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1597 |
| Armenian calendar | 293 ԹՎ ՄՂԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5594 |
| Bengali calendar | 251 |
| Berber calendar | 1794 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1388 |
| Burmese calendar | 206 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6352–6353 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3540 or 3480 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3541 or 3481 |
| Coptic calendar | 560–561 |
| Discordian calendar | 2010 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 836–837 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4604–4605 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 900–901 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 765–766 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3944–3945 |
| Holocene calendar | 10844 |
| Iranian calendar | 222–223 |
| Islamic calendar | 229–230 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōwa 11 (承和１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 741–742 |
| Julian calendar | 844 DCCCXLIV |
| Korean calendar | 3177 |
| Minguo calendar | 1068 before ROC 民前1068年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −624 |
| Seleucid era | 1155/1156 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1386–1387 |
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Pope Sergius II (844–847)
Year 844 (DCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Spring – Battle of Mauropotamos: An Byzantine expedition under Theoktistos is sent to Anatolia (modern Turkey) against the Muslim Arabs of the Abbasid Caliphate who have raided the Byzantine themes of Cappadocia, Anatolikon, Boukellarion, and Opsikion. The Byzantines are defeated and many of the officers defect to the Arabs.[1]
Europe
- Viking raiders ascend the River Garonne as far as the city of Toulouse and pillaging the lands of Septimania. Part of the marauding Vikings invades Galicia (Northern Spain), where some perish in a storm at sea. After being defeated in Corunna, the Scandinavian raiders sack the Umayyad cities of Seville, Niebla, Beja, and Lisbon.[2]
- Summer – King Charles the Bald struggles against the repeated rebellions in Aquitaine and against the Bretons in West Francia. He besieges Bernard I at the Battle of Toulouse, while duke Nominoe raids into Maine and plunders other Frankish territory.[3]
- June 15 – Louis II, eldest son of emperor Lothair I, is crowned king at Rome by pope Sergius II and becomes co-ruler of Middle Francia and over Lombardy, Friuli, and Tuscany in Italy.
Britain
- King Æthelred II of Northumbria is expelled from his kingdom by Rædwulf, who takes the throne. Rædwulf is later killed in battle against the Vikings, along with many of his nobleman. Æthelred returns and claims his right to rule.
- King Merfyn Frych dies after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Rhodri Mawr ("the Great") who becomes ruler of Gwynedd (Wales).
By topic
Religion
- January 25 – Pope Gregory IV dies after a 16-year reign in which he has supported the Frankish policy of late emperor Louis the Pious and established the observance of All Saints' Day. He is succeeded by Sergius II as the 102nd pope of Rome. Sergius imprisons the antipope John VIII who is elected by popular acclamation.
Births
- Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Muslim emir (d. 912)
- Al-Mu'tamid, Muslim caliph (d. 892)
- Yu Xuanji, Chinese poet (approximate date)
Deaths
- January 11 – Michael I, Byzantine emperor
- January 25 – Gregory IV, pope of the Catholic Church
- Abdallah ibn Tahir, Muslim governor (or 845)
- Abu Ja'far Ashinas, Muslim general
- Alberik II, Frankish bishop
- Bera, count of Barcelona
- Bernard II, count of Poitiers
- Bernard I, duke of Septimania
- Chen Yixing, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- Ekkehard, Frankish nobleman
- Galindo Garcés, count of Aragon
- Hugh, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (b. 802)
- Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
- Mukhariq, Abbasid court singer
- Nithard, Frankish historian
- Rædwulf, king of Northumbria (approximate date)
- Tachibana no Hayanari, Japanese calligrapher (d. 782)
- Theodrada, daughter of Charlemagne (or 853)
References
- ↑ Vasiliev 1935, pp. 399–404.
- ↑ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
- ↑ AF a. 844: Karolus Aquitaniam, quasi ad partem regni sui iure pertinentem, affectans ... ("Charles wanted Aquitaine, which belonged by right to a part of his kingdom").
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