845

This page relates to the year 845 Calendrier Julien.

Events

August 25th: First appearance of the Zero in an Indian treaty of cosmology, the Lokavibhâga.
Strong Malayan immigration with Madagascar.

Edict of the emperor Tang Wou-tsong against the Buddhist Manicheans, and the Nestoriens. More than 4.600 monasteries and 40.000 temples and furnace bridges are destroyed, more than 260.000 monks and moniales Buddhist is constrained to turn over to the secular life.
Stop of the expansion of Buddhism in China. Preeminence of the Confucianism and the taoism.

the Norman (Viking S) with at their head Ragnar Lodbrok (Ragnarr Lothbrók), go up the the Seine in March and after being itself seized Rouen, devastate Saint-Riquier and plunder the Abbaye S of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows and Holy-Genevieve, then put the seat in front of Paris. After an easy victory, they enter without difficulties the city (March 28th). The king Charles the Bald person pours to them a tribute of 7000 pounds money to buy their departure (first Danegeld).

June 13rd: The abbot Didon, close relative of Charles the Bald person, receives from the king the villa of Pocé, an old ground of Saint-Maurice of Angers, which was held in benefit by the vassal ones of the king.
October 21st: The oldest abbey of the Anjou, Saint-Maur of Glanfeuil, obtains from the king Charles the Bald person a whole of goods which belonged hitherto to the one of its faithful, Itier.
November 22nd: The king of Brittany Nominoë beats the king de Francie Charles the Bald person with the Bataille of Balloon, close to Redon. Brittany will not pay any more tribute; it becomes independent of the kingdom and will remain it during more than six centuries.

Hamburg is ruined by the Viking S which seem to be sent by the Danish king Hárekr which however had just signed a treaty of friendship with the emperor (844). Its archbishop, Anschaire withdraws himself with Bremen where it vainly tries to maintain bonds with Birka, in Sweden.
the bishop of Birka must leave the city. The hermit Ardgar collects the remains of the Christian parish, three faithful in all. Soon, it must turn over to its hermitage.
Embassy of Ibn Dihya, sent by Abd Al-Rahman II of Cordoue near the “king of Majus” and with its wife, called Nod. This embassy can be sent to Hárekr, the Denmark, or more probably to Turgueis, Dublin. Its goal could have been to discuss trade of the furs and slaves.
Beginning of the episcopate of Hincmar with Rheims (fine in 882).
the monk Gottschalk, theologist, is opposed to Raban Maur, abbot of Fulda.

the Vikings also go up the Adour, plunder the abbey of Saint-Sever, and seize Tarbes. They devastate also Saintes, on the Charente.
the abbot Radbert declares that the wine and the bread in holy the Cène are the blood and the flesh of Christ.

the council of Meaux prohibits the sale of pagan slaves to the Juifs and the pagan ones.
the synod of Paris (845 - 846) prohibited to the Jewish to make proselytism near their slaves, to occupy of the public office or to show themselves in public at the time of Easter, to build new synagogs. Charles the Bald person refuses to apply the provisions of the synod.
During the IXe century, at least 44.250 visitors' books (a visitors' book is worth ten to twelve times a pound of money) are poured by the Carolingiens with the title of the Danegeld.

Hrólfr tells Gǫngu-Hrólfr, more known under the name of Rollon the Walker; “jarl of Norman”, the Scandinavian equivalent of count, and titrates it of count de Rouen in 911 (considered, wrongly, as being the 1st duke of Normandy and the founder of the Norman duchy, it does not carry the title of “Duc of Normandy”).

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