847
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This article is about the year 847.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 810s 820s 830s – 840s – 850s 860s 870s |
| Years: | 844 845 846 – 847 – 848 849 850 |
| 847 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 847 DCCCXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1600 |
| Armenian calendar | 296 ԹՎ ՄՂԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5597 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -997–-996 |
| Bengali calendar | 254 |
| Berber calendar | 1797 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1391 |
| Burmese calendar | 209 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6355–6356 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年十二月十一日 (3483/3543-12-11) — to —
丁卯年十一月二十日(3484/3544-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 563–564 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 839–840 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4607–4608 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 903–904 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 769–770 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3948–3949 |
| Holocene calendar | 10847 |
| Iranian calendar | 225–226 |
| Islamic calendar | 232–233 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3180 |
| Minguo calendar | 1065 before ROC 民前1065年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1390 |
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Year 847 (DCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Europe
- Bari is captured by the Saracens.
- According to the Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe, king of Brittany, makes war on the Vikings.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- January – Pope Leo IV succeeds Pope Sergius II as the 103rd pope.
- Rabanus Maurus becomes Archbishop of Mainz.
[edit] Births
- Alfred the Great (b. c. 847–849) (d. 899)
- Wang Jian
[edit] Deaths
- January 24 – Pope Sergius II
- Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, king of Munster
- al-Wathiq, Abbasid caliph (b. c. 842–847)
