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
Bengali calendar	304
Berber calendar	1847
Buddhist calendar	1441
Burmese calendar	259
Byzantine calendar	6405–6406
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3593 or 3533 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3594 or 3534
Coptic calendar	613–614
Discordian calendar	2063
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	Kanpyō 9 (寛平９年)
Julian calendar	897 DCCCXCVII
Korean calendar	3230
Minguo calendar	1015 before ROC 民前1015年
Seleucid era	1208/1209 AG
Thai solar calendar	1439–1440

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

Events

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.
Taking advantage of the turmoil in the Tulunid government, Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid recovers control of the Cilician Thughur and of northern Syria.

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.