851

This page relates to the year 851 Calendrier Julien.

Events

March 7th: Died, close to Vendôme, of the king of Brittany Nominoë, which will succeed his/her son Erispoë.
August 22nd: Battle of Jengland. Erispoë beats the troops of Charles the Bald person with Jengland-Beslé and ensures its supremacy on all the Brittany. Later, by the Treated of Angers, it will become vassal of Charles the Bald person with right to the royal badges.
September: Treated of Angers. Charles the Bald person recognizes Erispoë, the son of Nominoë as king of Brittany and yields also the counties to him of Retz, Rennes and Nantes. The king of Brittany lends a homage to king de France, homage which is not a liege homage, the EC-last involving an allegiance then. Brittany thus remained a sovereign kingdom. In remembering this homage purely symbolic system, and for marking Breton independence well, the dukes of Brittany will be crowned “Duke, king in their grounds”.
October 13rd: The Viking S taken along by their chief Hoseri (Asgeirr), go up once again the the Seine until Rouen, then to foot go until Beauvais which they set fire to as well as the Abbaye Saint-Germinate-with-Fly, in the Oise. They winter on the continent for the first time. They remain in the Paris basin until the end of 852.

a fleet considerable Viking goes up the Elba, then operates in the Rhineland and Flanders.
Ethelwulf king of Wessex and heir to Egbert beats the Danish Rorik installed since 850 on the small island of Tahnet, with the mouth of the the Thames. It cannot drive out them of Thanet, nor to prevent them from strengthening itself there.
Arrived of the Danes in Ireland, who take Dublin with the Norwegians.
Crisis of religious fanaticism in Spain. Voluntary martyrdom of about fifty Mozarabs on the market of Cordoue (851 - 859).

Died of the Basque king of Pampelune, Eneko Arista, founder of a dynasty which will reign on the Navarre until in 1234 (or 852). His/her son García I {{er|}} of Navarre, regent of the kingdom since 841 because of the disease of his/her father, succeeds to him. (End of the reign in 870).

Of praedestinatione (Of divine predestination) of Jean Scot Erigène. Several councils condemn this treaty which takes again the teaching of Hincmar of Rheims: the destiny of the individual does not depend entirely on God, but is also conditioned by the free will, another access road to the personal hello. He affirms that there is no damnation in the traditional sense of the term. For Érigène, all the human beings become pure spirits.
Cyrille tries évangéliser the Khazars (851 - 863).
Relation of China and India , anonymous work of Geography reporting a voyage, allotted to a certain merchant Soleiman.

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