This page relates to the year 804 Calendrier Julien.
Events
Asia
- Beginning supposed of the reign of Senaleg, king of the Tibet (fine in 815).
- Senaleg and its son Relpachen, very piles, invite Masters of the India and Nepal. A Buddhist lexicon still used, Mahavyapatti, are made up. The two kings allot privileges to the clergy and the monasteries, which irritates holding them of the prebouddhic religion, many within the court.
Europe
- the Francs dominate the Germany of the North of the the Rhine to the Elba.
- the last rebels Saxons are reduced. To consolidate the border with the Slavic ones, Charlemagne makes off-set Nordalbingiens and colonize by Francs two banks of the mouth of the Elba.
- Foundation of Hamburg.
- the Viking S fight their first battles against the Francs.
- the king of the Danes Gotfrid (Godfredhr) intervenes with Sliesthorp (undoubtedly Hedeby) by overland route and sea. Charlemagne does not react.
- Foundation of évêché of Münster by the Clippings Liudger. Charlemagne prohibits to him to go évangéliser the Denmark with which it was in war.
- Voyage of the pope Leon III with Rheims, where it passes Christmas at Charlemagne. It meets Charlemagne with Quierzy-on-Oise before going to Aachen.
- Hildegrin becomes bishop of Châlons.
- Guillaume of Toulouse is withdrawn in a convent (Gellone, today Saint-Guilhem-the-Desert).
- Conflict against the brutal increase in the fiscal charges in Istrie, arbitrated by the Missi dominici in the “ plaid of Risano ”. The duke Jean confiscated the forests and the pastures, believer who they belonged to the public domain and the inhabitants complain to have to pay contributions that they did not owe under the Byzantine domination (contributions in fodder, drudgeries, taxation in kind of the herds, service of transport, requisition of horses and men). Jean is recognized guilty abuse of power and must give up the majority of the disputed taxes.
Art & culture
- Odon of Metz builds for Charlemagne the palatine Chapelle.
- In the scriptorium of the abbey Saint-Martin-of-Turns, one recopies the manuscripts of antiquity in writing Caroline.
Births in 804
Death in 804
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