812

This article is about the year 812.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	780s  790s  800s  – 810s –  820s  830s  840s
Years:	809 810 811 – 812 – 813 814 815

812 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

812 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	812 DCCCXII
Ab urbe condita	1565
Armenian calendar	261 ԹՎ ՄԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	5562
Bahá'í calendar	-1032–-1031
Bengali calendar	219
Berber calendar	1762
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1356
Burmese calendar	174
Byzantine calendar	6320–6321
Chinese calendar	辛卯年十二月十三日 (3448/3508-12-13) — to — 壬辰年十一月廿四日 (3449/3509-11-24)
Coptic calendar	528–529
Ethiopian calendar	804–805
Hebrew calendar	4572–4573
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	868–869
- Shaka Samvat	734–735
- Kali Yuga	3913–3914
Holocene calendar	10812
Iranian calendar	190–191
Islamic calendar	196–197
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3145
Minguo calendar	1100 before ROC 民前1100年
Thai solar calendar	1355

Year 812 (DCCCXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• The second Battle of Roncevaux Pass is fought between the Basques and the Franks.
• The Republic of Amalfi sends galleys to support the byzantine strategos of Sicily, Gregorio, against the Aghlabid invaders. It is one of the earliest evidence of the independence of the city.

China

• The Chinese government takes over the issuing of paper bank drafts, the ancestor of paper money.

Deaths

• January 11 – Stauracius, Byzantine emperor
• Du You, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 735)