810
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Thai solar calendar | 1352–1353 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 936 or 555 or −217 — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 937 or 556 or −216 |
Year 810 (DCCCX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Spring – The Venetian Byzantine fleet to Dalmatia, prompting Pepin to withdraw to the mainland. A legate is dispatched to Venice, where he deposes the turncoat dukes, before continuing on to Aachen, to negotiate a peace with Charlemagne. Charlemagne recognises Byzantine dominance over Venice and Dalmatia in the Adriatic Sea.
Europe
- King Godfred of the Danes leads 200 Viking ships to plunder the Frisian coast, and forces the merchants to pay 100 pounds of silver. He claims Northern Frisia as Danish territory.
- Godfred is killed by one of his bodyguard who murdered Godfred is possibly one of his sons.[1]
- Al-Andalus (modern Spain): The city of Mérida rises up against the Emirate of Córdoba.[2]
By topic
Religion
- Tikal Temple III, also known as the Temple of the Jaguar Priest,[3] is constructed in Tikal National Park (modern Guatemala).
- The Book of Kells (also known as the Book of Colomba), an illuminated manuscript, is completed by Celtic monks (approximate date).
Births
- July 19 – Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian Islamic scholar (d. 870)
- Xuān Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 859)
- Abbas ibn Firnas, Muslim physician and inventor (d. 887)
- Anastasius, antipope of Rome (approximate date)
- Benedictineabbot and poet (approximate date)
- Engelram, Frankish chamberlain (approximate date)
- Gérard II, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
- Halfdan the Black, Norwegian nobleman (approximate date)
- Kassia, Byzantine abbess and hymnographer (approximate date)
- Kenneth MacAlpin, king of Scotland (d. 858)
- Louis the German, king of East Francia (approximate date)
- Minamoto no Makoto, Japanese prince (d. 868)
- Photius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)
- Seishi, empress of Japan (d. 879)
Deaths
- Pippin of Italy, son of Charlemagne
- Æthelburh, Anglo-Saxon abbess
- Abul-Abbas, Asian elephant given to Charlemagne
- Bello of Carcassonne, Frankish nobleman
- Northumbria(approximate date)
- Eochaid mac Fiachnai, king of Ulaid (Ireland)
- Fujiwara no Nakanari, Japanese nobleman (b. 764)
- Gisela, Frankish abbess (b. 757)
- Godfred, king of the Danes
- Ismail ibn Ibrahim, Muslim scholar (b. 756)
- Liu Ji, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 757)
- Owain ap Maredudd, king of Dyfed (Wales)
- Rotrude, Frankish princess, daughter of Charlemagne
- Thrasco, Obotrite prince
- Lower Pannonia(approximate date)
- Wu Shaocheng, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 750)
References
- ^ Notker the Stammerer, De Carolo Magno, Book II, Chapter 13.
- ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
- ^ Coe 1967, 1988, p. 76.