845
This article is about the year 845. For the number, see 845 (number). For the vacuum tube, see 845 (vacuum tube).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 810s 820s 830s – 840s – 850s 860s 870s |
| Years: | 842 843 844 – 845 – 846 847 848 |
| 845 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 845 DCCCXLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1598 |
| Armenian calendar | 294 ԹՎ ՄՂԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5595 |
| Bengali calendar | 252 |
| Berber calendar | 1795 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1389 |
| Burmese calendar | 207 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6353–6354 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3541 or 3481 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3542 or 3482 |
| Coptic calendar | 561–562 |
| Discordian calendar | 2011 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 837–838 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4605–4606 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 901–902 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 767–768 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3946–3947 |
| Holocene calendar | 10845 |
| Iranian calendar | 223–224 |
| Islamic calendar | 230–231 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōwa 12 (承和１２年) |
| Julian calendar | 845 DCCCXLV |
| Korean calendar | 3178 |
| Minguo calendar | 1067 before ROC 民前1067年 |
| Seleucid era | 1156/1157 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1387–1388 |
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Year 845 (DCCCXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- March 28 or 29 (Easter) – Siege of Paris ends when Paris is sacked by a Viking raiding fleet, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. The Vikings also sack Hamburg and Melun.
- November 22 – Count of Vannes, Nominoe, defeats the king of Francia Charles the Bald at the battle of Ballon near Redon. No more toll is taken on Brittany, and it becomes an independent state lasting for seven centuries.
Asia
- Persecution of Buddhists is started in China. More than 4,600 monasteries and 40,000 temples and shrines are destroyed. More than 260,000 Buddhist monks and nuns are forced to return to secular life.
- September 16: Prisoner exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate at the river Lamos.