857

This page relates to the year 857 Calendrier Julien.

Events

  • Beginning of the period Fujiwara in Japan: any power of Fujiwara (fine in 1160).

  • Beginning of the reign of Narayanapala, king Pala of the Bengal (fine in 911).
    • the Pala empire disintegrates little by little under the blows of the Pratihara of Kanauj.

Europe

  • Prohibition, with Mainz, of the trustes, groups armed with warriors bound by oath.
  • In spring, Tours is again plundered by the Viking S. In summer, the church Sainte Genevieve of Paris is also.
  • the Normands plunder Orleans. Chartres is taken and burned by the Norman ones.
  • the Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Brantôme in the Dordogne, founded in 769 by Charlemagne is again devastated, and this completely destroyed time, by the Viking S.
  • November: After having assassinated his/her cousin Erispoë, Solomon proclaims king de Bretagne (fine in 874).

  • Beginning of the reign of Ethelbald, king of the Wessex (fine in 860).
    • Ethelbald usurps the throne of his/her father Ethelwulf, left in pilgrimage in Rome. He will marry his mother-in-law Judith, girl of Charles the Bald person, who will be removed by Baudouin Ier, future count of Flanders.

Art & culture

Births in 857

Death in 857

  • November: Erispoë, king of Brittany, assassinated by Breton the Solomon (his cousin) and Almar.

  • Yahya ibn Masuyah, director of the House of wisdom to Baghdad (832). Its pupil, the translator Hunayn ibn Ishâk (809 - 873), succeeds to him.
  • Ziriab, poet and Kurdish musician of origin, with Cordoue.

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