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Calendar year

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	820s 830s 840s 850s 860s
Years:	844 845 846 847 848 849 850
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847 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 847
DCCCXLVII

Ab urbe condita 1600

Armenian calendar 296
ԹՎ ՄՂԶ

Assyrian calendar 5597

Balinese saka calendar 768–769

Bengali calendar 253–254

Berber calendar 1797

Buddhist calendar 1391

Burmese calendar 209

Byzantine calendar 6355–6356

Chinese calendar 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
3544 or 3337
— to —
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
3545 or 3338

Coptic calendar 563–564

Discordian calendar 2013

Ethiopian calendar 839–840

Hebrew calendar 4607–4608

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 903–904

- Shaka Samvat 768–769

- Kali Yuga 3947–3948

Holocene calendar 10847

Iranian calendar 225–226

Islamic calendar 232–233

Japanese calendar Jōwa 14
(承和14年)

Javanese calendar 744–745

Julian calendar 847
DCCCXLVII

Korean calendar 3180

Minguo calendar 1065 before ROC
民前1065年

Nanakshahi calendar −621

Seleucid era 1158/1159 AG

Thai solar calendar 1389–1390

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)

This article is about the year. For the Sesame Street episode, see Episode 847.

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

Events

By place

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 Age: 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.

By topic

Natural events

November 24 – 847 Damascus earthquake

Religion

January 24 – Pope Sergius II dies of gout after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by Leo IV, as the 103rd pope of Rome.
April 21– Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish Benedictine monk, becomes archbishop of Mainz after the death of Odgar.

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

January 27 – Sergius II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 790)
April 21 – Odgar, Frankish monk and archbishop
June 1 – Xiao, empress of the Tang Dynasty
June 14 – Methodius I, patriarch of Constantinople
August 10 – Al-Wathiq, Muslim caliph (b. 816)
Fedelmid mac Crimthainn, king of Munster (Ireland)
Frothar of Toul, Frankish bishop (approximate date)
Hetto, Frankish archbishop (approximate date)
Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafi'i, Muslim governor
Muhammad ibn al-Zayyat, Abbasid vizier
Li Rangyi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
Theodemar of Iria, Galician bishop

References

Citations

^ Kreutz, p. 38.
^ 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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