846

This page relates to the year 846 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Spain

Taken León on the Moors by Ramire Ier of the Asturies.

Italy

August: The pirates buckwheats of Africa of north plunder Rome: sixty ten ships attack Ostie and Oporto. Buckwheats go on Rome by plundering all on their passage. The garrison of Grégoriopolis cannot stop them. They profane the Church Saint-Pierre. Guy de Spolète ends up pushing back them.

Louis II of Italy carries out a forwarding against the Arab .

France

Nominoë occupies Nantes and Rennes, carries out raids in Anjou and threatens Bayeux. Charles the Bald person recognizes it like duke of Brittany.

Central Europe

Reign of Rotislav, king of Moravie (fine in 870).
Rotislav extends its field until the the Tisza (Theis), theoretical border with the Bulgarian Empire of Boris Ier (852 - 889). Louis Germanic the, which had however established Rotislav, proposes an alliance with Boris. Rotislav turns then to the emperor of Byzance, Michel III, adversary of the Bulgares (863).

Art & culture

First pictorial representation of a contemporary event in France: a miniature of the Bible of Vivien represents the king receiving this Bible hands of the count Vivien.

Births in 846

November 1st: Louis II the Stammerer, king de France.
December 6th: Hassan Al-Askari.

Death in 846

Po Kiu-yi Chinese poet (born in 772).

Map-bms: 846

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