This page relates to the year 854 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Africa

• Nubie : The troops califales which continue the Bedja, which refused to pay their tribute, enter to the Dongola and impose a peace treaty to the Nubian sovereign.

Asia

• Beginning of the reign of Vigrahapala, king Pala of the Bengal (fine in 857).
• `Umar `Abdu `L `Aziz Hibbârî founds in the Sind an Arab dynasty which recognizes Abbasid suzerainty only nominally.

Europe

• December 25th: The clerks and the noble ones of the Norfolk assembled with Attleborough, elect for king of East Anglia Edmond (14 years), nephew of Athelstan, eighth king d' Est-Anglie, left in Holy Land to finish there its days in the prayer and penitence.

• León is taken again by the Asturiens.
• the Normands plunder Orleans.
• to resist Norman, the inhabitants cut the roads and destroy the bridges. Charles the Bald person orders to open the roads recently closed by water, to repair the bridges and to decrease the taxes which the refugees driven out by the Norman ones pay.
• Robert the Fort, abbot laic of Noirmoutier, is named missus dominicus of Charles the Bald person.
• Died of the Danish king Horik (Hárekr). One of its sons (?), Horik, succeeds to him.

Births in 854

Death in 854

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