847

Year 847 (DCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Danish Vikings land in the Breton March (western part of Gaul). Duke Nominoe of Brittany fails to withstand them in battle, but succeeds in buying them off with gifts and persuading them to leave (approximate date).
• Lower Rhine, as part of their attacks on the Empire of Francia
  .
• The
  Italian mainland with raids.^[1]

• dropsy after a five-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother al-Mutawakkil
  .

• November 24 – 847 Damascus earthquake

Religion

• January 24 – Pope Sergius II dies of gout after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by Leo IV, as the 103rd pope of Rome.
• Odgar
  .

Births

• Æthelred I, king of Wessex
  (approximate date)
• caliph (d. 869
  )
• Charles the Child, king of Aquitaine (or 848)
• Cheng Ji, Chinese general (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Sukeyo, Japanese aristocrat (d. 897)
• Kang Junli, general of the Tang Dynasty (d. 894)
• Lu Yi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 905)
• Miyoshi Kiyotsura, Japanese scholar (d. 918)
• Wang Jian, emperor of Former Shu (d. 918)
• Wang Jingchong, Chinese general (d. 883)

Deaths

• January 27 – Sergius II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 790)
• Odgar, Frankish monk and archbishop
• June 1 – Xiao, empress of the Tang Dynasty
• June 14 – Methodius I, patriarch of Constantinople
• August 10 – Al-Wathiq, Muslim caliph (b. 816)
• Fedelmid mac Crimthainn, king of Munster (Ireland)
• Frothar of Toul, Frankish bishop (approximate date)
• Hetto, Frankish archbishop (approximate date)
• Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafi'i, Muslim governor
• Muhammad ibn al-Zayyat, Abbasid vizier
• Li Rangyi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Theodemar of Iria
  , Galician bishop

References

Citations

Bibliography

• ISBN 978-0-306814808
  .