897

This article is about the year 897.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	860s  870s  880s  – 890s –  900s  910s  920s
Years:	894 895 896 – 897 – 898 899 900

897 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

897 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	897 DCCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	1650
Armenian calendar	346 ԹՎ ՅԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	5647
Bahá'í calendar	-947–-946
Bengali calendar	304
Berber calendar	1847
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1441
Burmese calendar	259
Byzantine calendar	6405–6406
Chinese calendar	丙辰年十一月廿五日 (3533/3593-11-25) — to — 丁巳年十二月初四日 (3534/3594-12-4)
Coptic calendar	613–614
Ethiopian calendar	889–890
Hebrew calendar	4657–4658
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	953–954
- Shaka Samvat	819–820
- Kali Yuga	3998–3999
Holocene calendar	10897
Iranian calendar	275–276
Islamic calendar	283–284
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3230
Minguo calendar	1015 before ROC 民前1015年
Thai solar calendar	1440

Year 897 (DCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• Emperor Uda of Japan is succeeded by Emperor Daigo.
• Yahya al-Hadi ila'l Haqq founds the rule of Zaidi Shiite Imams in Yemen, which will endure until the second half of the 20th century.

By topic

Religion

• January – The Cadaver Synod is held.
• August – Pope Romanus succeeds Pope Stephen VI as the 114th pope.
• November – Pope Romanus is deposed.
• December – Pope Theodore II succeeds Pope Romanus as the 115th pope, but dies twenty days later.

Deaths

• Pope Stephen VI (strangled)
• Pope Theodore II
• Zhaozhou, Chinese Zen master