821
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This article is about the year 821.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 790s 800s 810s – 820s – 830s 840s 850s |
| Years: | 818 819 820 – 821 – 822 823 824 |
| 821 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 821 DCCCXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1574 |
| Armenian calendar | 270 ԹՎ ՄՀ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5571 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1023–-1022 |
| Bengali calendar | 228 |
| Berber calendar | 1771 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1365 |
| Burmese calendar | 183 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6329–6330 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年十一月廿四日 (3457/3517-11-24) — to —
辛丑年十二月初四日(3458/3518-12-4) |
| Coptic calendar | 537–538 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 813–814 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4581–4582 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 877–878 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 743–744 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3922–3923 |
| Holocene calendar | 10821 |
| Iranian calendar | 199–200 |
| Islamic calendar | 205–206 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3154 |
| Minguo calendar | 1091 before ROC 民前1091年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1364 |
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Year 821 (DCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Asia
- Tang Mu Zong becomes emperor of China.
- First recorded session of the Parliament of Croatia
[edit] Byzantine Empire
- The Byzantine general Thomas the Slav secures control over most of Byzantine Anatolia as well as recognition from the Abbasid Caliphate, and crosses over into Europe. The emperor Michael II is blockaded in Constantinople, but Thomas' first attack on the city fails.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 – Benedict of Aniane, monastic founder and saint
- December 18 – Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
- Coenwulf, king of Mercia