818

Year 818 (DCCCXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Vikings known as Rus' (Norsemen) plunder the north coast of Anatolia (modern Turkey), marking the first recorded raid of Rus' people on territory in the Byzantine Empire.^[1]

Europe

• April 17 – King Bernard of Italy, illegitimate son of Pepin of Italy, is tried and condemned to death by Emperor Louis I. The Kingdom of Italy is reabsorbed into the Frankish Empire.
• The
  Timok River break their alliance with the Bulgars. Duke Ljudevit of the Slavs in Lower Pannonia sends emissaries to Louis I, to assert his independence from the Franks.^[2]
• Fez (modern Morocco).^[3]

• The Anglo-Saxons, led by King Coenwulf of Mercia, raid Dyfed in Wales (approximate date).

Asia

• Beginning of the Lemro period: The Sambawa and Pyinsa Kingdoms are founded in present-day Myanmar.

By topic

Religion

• Theodulf, bishop of Orléans
  , is deposed and imprisoned, after becoming involved in a conspiracy with Bernard of Italy.

• Abu Dawud, Muslim hadith compiler (or 817
  )
• Al-Fath ibn Khaqan, Muslim governor (or 817)
• Ariwara no Yukihira, Japanese governor (d. 893)
• Pepin, count of Vermandois (approximate date)
• Sahl al-Tustari, Persian scholar (approximate date)

Deaths

• April 17 – Bernard of Italy, king of the Lombards (b. 797)
• October 3 – Ermengarde, queen of the Franks^[4]
• Al-Fadl ibn Sahl, Persian vizier
• Shia Imam (b. 766
  )
• Cernach mac Congalaig, king of Brega (Ireland)
• Clement, Irish scholar and saint
• Felix, bishop of Urgell (Spain
  )
• García I Jiménez, duke of Gascony
• Hildebold, archbishop of Cologne
• Synnada
• Morman, chieftain and king of Brittany
• Muiredach mac Brain, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Theophanes the Confessor, Byzantine monk (or 817)
• Quan Deyu, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (b. 759)
• Yuan Zi, general of the Tang dynasty (b. 739)

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