844

This page relates to the year 844 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Beginning of the reign of Nandivarman III king of the Pallava (fine in 866). He overcomes and pushes back the Pandya with Tellaru.

January: Beginning of the Pontificate of Serge II (fine in 847). Elected against the antipape Jean, it falls under the cut from his Benoît brother and lets the simony settle.

June 15th: Beginning of the reign of Louis II, king of Italy (fine in 858). It is crowned in Rome by the pope Serge II.

Guillaume de Septimanie, wire of Bernard de Septimanie becomes duke of Bordeaux (fine in 850)
Bordeaux, then Toulouse, are plundered by the Normands of Hasteinn and Björn Côte of iron, perhaps with the call of Pépin II of Aquitaine.
Forwarding of Norman of Ireland in Brittany.
Quentovic is plundered by the Norman ones and is not raised any.

May 23rd: Battle of Clavijo in Spain with an alleged appearance of Holy Jacques Major the. Victoire of Ramire I {{er}}, king of the Asturies on the Moors.

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Charles the Bald person in vain tries to vassalize the hispano-Visigoths.
a raid of the Viking S on Seville, in Spain is pushed back. Another with the Morocco is victorious.

a fleet Norman, after having devastated the valley of the the Loire, attacks the ports of Galicia. The Viking S meet a sharp resistance and are constrained to be re-embarked. In August, they appear in front of Lisbon, with 80 ships. They take the city, then move on Cadiz, go up the Guadalquivir and attack Seville, which they occupy. It are not long in being driven out of Spain after a severe battle. According to the writer of Cordoue Ibn el Kutia (death in 977), they conclude before leaving an agreement with the Arabs who repurchase the prisoners to them that they had made against of the vivres and of the essential items. The emir of Seville Abdurrahman reinforces defenses of the country, makes build an arsenal, ships and reinforces his garrisons with ground.

Beginning of the reign of Kenneth Mac Alpine, king of Scotland (fine in 858). He joins together Scots and Pictes in a Scottish kingdom.
Beginning of the reign of Rhodri Large the, king of Gwynedd.

Demolished Norwegians of Turgeis in Ireland: the people of Meath revolt at the instigation of his king Mael Seachlinn. Turgeis is attracted in an ambush, fact captive and ritually drowned in the Lough Owell (Weastmeath, 845). Thereafter, the Norwegians undergo a series of defeats against the revolted and linked Irishmen. The Danes start to be interested in Ireland and are combined readily with the Irishmen. They ransack Dublin and seize Armagh.

the Normands establish commercial relations with the Arab of Spain. Ibn Dihya (death in 1235, but being based on sources of the 9th century), reports to us that a poet named El Ghazal is sent by the emir of Seville near the Viking S (Denmark or Ireland). It returns to Seville accompanied by Scandinavians.

the Persan traveller Ibn Khordadbeh attests the trade (slaves, furs, swords) between the Russian S with the the Mediterranean (by Byzance) and the Caspienne (by the the Volga and Itil). At the century following the Arab geographer Al Masudi will specify that the traffic of the skins of black fox, come from the country of Bourtas (with the confluence of the the Volga and the Oka) is done in direction of Derbend and Berdaa (Arménie), but also towards the Khorasan and the Khârezm in the east and the country of Slavic in north.

the postmaster of Baghdad Ibn Khurdadhbih writes the Livre of the routes and the kingdoms .
Arab Translation of the principal political treaties of Plato.

January 11th: Michel Ier Rangabé.
January 25th: Gregoire IV, pope.
Bernard de Septimanie, wire of Guillaume de Gellone, chambrier of Charles the Bald person (denounced by Hugues and Matfrid as lover of the empress) is carried out for lese-majesty.
Nithard, monk, author of a history of wire of Louis the Piles which gives the transcription of the Serment of Strasbourg.

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