804
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This article is about the year 804. For other uses, see 804 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 770s 780s 790s – 800s – 810s 820s 830s |
| Years: | 801 802 803 – 804 – 805 806 807 |
| 804 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 804 DCCCIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1557 |
| Armenian calendar | 253 ԹՎ ՄԾԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5554 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1040–-1039 |
| Bengali calendar | 211 |
| Berber calendar | 1754 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1348 |
| Burmese calendar | 166 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6312–6313 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸未年十一月十五日 (3440/3500-11-15) — to —
甲申年十一月廿六日(3441/3501-11-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 520–521 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 796–797 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4564–4565 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 860–861 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 726–727 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3905–3906 |
| Holocene calendar | 10804 |
| Iranian calendar | 182–183 |
| Islamic calendar | 188–189 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 804 DCCCIV |
| Korean calendar | 3137 |
| Minguo calendar | 1108 before ROC 民前1108年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1347 |
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Year 804 (DCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Japanese monk Kukai visits China, from which he brings back texts of Shingon (Esoteric Buddhism).
- 804–805 – Priest Saicho, patriarch of Tendai Buddhism, visits China and reportedly brings back tea seeds.
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- Emperor Nikephoros I of Byzantium suffers a major defeat against the Saracens at the Battle of Krasos.
[edit] Oceania
- March 25 – The Inscription of Sukabumi from Eastern Java marks the beginning of the Javanese language.
[edit] Europe
- Charlemagne finishes the conquest of Saxony.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- March 30 – Saint Ludger becomes the first Bishop of Munster.
[edit] Births
- Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, Japanese regent (d. 872)
- Louis the German, Carolingian King of East Francia (d. 876)
- Bayazid Bastami, Persian sufi (d. 874)
[edit] Deaths
- May 19 – Alcuin of York, bishop of Tours, advisor to Charlemagne
- Lu Yu, Chinese author of The Classic of Tea (b. 733)
