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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| 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 |
Year 845 (DCCCXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine–Arab War: Prisoner exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate at the River Lamos in Cilicia (modern Turkey). The exchanges last for 10 days, and the Byzantines recover 4,600 prisoners.[1][2]
Europe
- March 28 or 29 (Easter) – Siege of Paris: Viking forces under the Norse chieftain of Ragnar Lodbrok entering the River Seine with a fleet of 120 long ships (5,000 men). They passing through the city of Rouen and plunder the countryside. King Charles the Bald assembles an army and sends it to protect Paris, the capital of the West Frankish Kingdom. Ragnar routes the enemy forces and hanges 111 of their prisoners in honour of Odin.[3] Charles — to keep them from plundering his kingdom — pays a large tribute of 7,000 livres (pounds) of silver or gold in exchange for leaving.[4] The Vikings also sack the cities of Hamburg and Melun.
- November 22 – Battle of Ballon: Frankish forces (3,000 men) led by Charles the Bald are defeated by Nominoe, count of Vannes, at Ille-et-Vilaine (near Redon). After the battle, Brittany becomes an regnum 'kingdom' within the Frankish Empire.
Asia
- Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution: Emperor Wu Zong begins the persecution of Buddhists and other foreign religions in China, such as Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism. More than 4,600 monasteries, 40,000 temples and shrines are destroyed. More than 260,000 Buddhist monks and nuns are forced to return to secular life.
By topic
Religion
- John Scotus Eriugena, Irish theologian, travels to France and takes over the Palatine Academy in Paris at the invitation of Charles the Bald (approximate date).
Births
- Charles of Provence, Frankish king (d. 863)
- Liutgard of Saxony, Frankish queen (approximate date)
- August 1 – Sugawara no Michizane, Japanese scholar and politician (d. 903)
Deaths
- Dionysius I, Syrian patriarch
- Ecgred, bishop of Lindisfarne
- Eginhard, bishop of Utrecht
- Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, Muslim historian (b. 784)
- Mislav, duke of Croatia (approximate date)
- Turgesius, Viking chieftain (approximate date)
References
- ↑ Huart 1986, p. 647.
- ↑ Toynbee 1973, p. 391.
- ↑ Jones 2001, p. 212.
- ↑ Sawyer 2001, p. 40.
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