897

This page relates to the year 897 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

Beginning of the era Fujiwara with the Japan (fine in 1185). Beginning of the reign of the emperor Daigo (death in 930).

Western Europe

January: The pope Etienne VI makes unearth his predecessor Formosa and judges it (the synod of the corpse).
August:

the pope Etienne VI, instrument of the party of Spoléte, is strangled.
Pontificate of Romain (deposited in November).

December: Beginning of the Pontificate of Theodore II (fine the December 20th).

Agreement between Eudes and Charles III. Eudes designates Charles III the Simple one like successor.

Alfred Large the gains a decisive victory over the Danes with Appledore in the south of the Kent. It reconquers the spoils taken by the Viking S since 893, then drives out the invaders of the Chester, in north.

Norman the Ottar discovers a sea route between the Norway and the Eastern Russia by the Northern Cape and the White Mer.

Worsen Byzantine

the Byzantine emperor Leon VI Wise the wife Zoe Zaoutzina.

Victoire of the Bulgarian on Leon VI.

Taken again Byzantine offensive against the Moslems in Cilicie, Mésopotamie and Arménie.

Art & culture

With the Japan, edition of a collection of 125 accounts of love affairs, Boastfulnesses of Ise .
Foundation of the Abbey of Montredon.

Births in 897

Death in 897

February 6th: Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople.
August: Etienne VI, pope.
December 20th: Theodore II (pope).

November 10th: Théophano, Byzantine empress, wife of Leon VI Wise the.

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