844
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This article is about the year 844. For the locomotive, see Union Pacific 844.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1000–-999 |
| Bengali calendar | 251 |
| Berber calendar | 1794 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1388 |
| Burmese calendar | 206 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6352–6353 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十二月初八日 (3480/3540-12-8) — to —
甲子年十一月十九日(3481/3541-11-19) |
| Coptic calendar | 560–561 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 836–837 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4604–4605 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 900–901 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 766–767 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3945–3946 |
| Holocene calendar | 10844 |
| Iranian calendar | 222–223 |
| Islamic calendar | 229–230 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3177 |
| Minguo calendar | 1068 before ROC 民前1068年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1387 |
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Year 844 (DCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Rhodri Mawr ('the Great') becomes king of Gwynedd.
- June 15 – Louis II is crowned King of Lombardy by Pope Sergius II.
- Nominoe, Count of Vannes, raids into Maine and plunders the territory.
- According to the Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe makes war on the Vikings.
- Dorestad is raided by the Vikings.
- First Viking attacks on the Muslim possessions of the Iberian peninsula. The Scandinavian raiders sack Sevilla, Niebla, Beja and Lisbon.[1]
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- January – Pope Sergius II succeeds Pope Gregory IV as the 102nd pope.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 – Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
- January 25 – Pope Gregory IV
- Berà, first count of Barcelona
- Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad, king of Gwynedd
[edit] References
- ^ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
