847

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	820s 830s 840s 850s 860s
Years:	844 845 846 847 848 849 850

847 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	847 DCCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	1600
Armenian calendar	296 ԹՎ ՄՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	5597
Balinese saka calendar	768–769
Bengali calendar	254
Berber calendar	1797
Buddhist calendar	1391
Burmese calendar	209
Byzantine calendar	6355–6356
Chinese calendar	Bính dầnNiên (FireTiger) 3544 or 3337 — to — Đinh mão niên (FireRabbit) 3545 or 3338
Coptic calendar	563–564
Discordian calendar	2013
Ethiopian calendar	839–840
Hebrew calendar	4607–4608
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	903–904
-Shaka Samvat	768–769
-Kali Yuga	3947–3948
Holocene calendar	10847
Iranian calendar	225–226
Islamic calendar	232–233
Japanese calendar	Jōwa14 ( thừa hòa １４ niên )
Javanese calendar	744–745
Julian calendar	847 DCCCXLVII
Korean calendar	3180
Minguo calendar	1065 beforeROC Dân tiền 1065 niên
Nanakshahi calendar	−621
Seleucid era	1158/1159AG
Thai solar calendar	1389–1390
Tibetan calendar	Dương hỏa hổ niên (male Fire-Tiger) 973 or 592 or −180 — to — Âm hỏa thỏ niên (female Fire-Rabbit) 974 or 593 or −179

Pope Leo IV(790–855)

This article is about the year. For the Sesame Street episode, seeEpisode 847.

Year847(DCCCXLVII) was acommon year starting on Saturday(link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• DanishVikingsland in theBreton March(western part ofGaul). DukeNominoeofBrittanyfails to withstand them in battle, but succeeds in buying them off with gifts and persuading them to leave (approximate date).
• Viking Age:TheVikingsplunder theLower Rhine,as part of their attacks on the Empire ofFrancia.
• TheSaracens,under theBerberleaderKalfun,capture theByzantinecity ofBari(Southern Italy). He becomes the first ruler of theEmirate of Bari,and expands his influence on theItalian mainlandwith raids.

Abbasid Caliphate

• August 10– CaliphAl-Wathiqdies ofdropsyafter a five-year reign. He is succeeded by his brotheral-Mutawakkil.

Death ofAbbasidcaliphAl-Wathiq,He died as the result ofdropsyon 10 August 847. He was succeeded by his brother al-Mutawakkil.

By topic

Natural events

• November 24–847 Damascus earthquake

Religion

• January 24–Pope Sergius IIdies ofgoutafter a 3-year reign. He is succeeded byLeo IV,as the 103rdpopeofRome.
• April 21–Rabanus Maurus,aFrankishBenedictinemonk, becomesarchbishopofMainzafter the death ofOdgar.

Births

• Æthelred I,king ofWessex(approximate date)
• Al-Mu'tazz,Muslimcaliph(d.869)
• Charles the Child,king ofAquitaine(or848)
• Cheng Ji,Chinese general (approximate date)
• Fujiwara no Sukeyo,Japanese aristocrat (d.897)
• Kang Junli,general of theTang Dynasty(d.894)
• Lu Yi,chancellor of the Tang Dynasty(d.905)
• Miyoshi Kiyotsura,Japanese scholar (d.918)
• Wang Jian,emperor ofFormer Shu(d. 918)
• Wang Jingchong,Chinese general (d.883)

Deaths

• January 27–Sergius II,pope of theCatholic Church(b.790)
• April 21–Odgar,Frankish monk andarchbishop
• June 1–Xiao,empress of the Tang Dynasty
• June 14–Methodius I,patriarch ofConstantinople
• August 10–Al-Wathiq,Muslim caliph (b.816)
• Fedelmid mac Crimthainn,king ofMunster(Ireland)
• Frothar of Toul,Frankishbishop(approximate date)
• Hetto,Frankish archbishop (approximate date)
• Isa ibn Mansur al-Rafi'i,Muslim governor
• Muhammad ibn al-Zayyat,Abbasid vizier
• Li Rangyi,chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
• Theodemar of Iria,Galician bishop

References

Bibliography

• Kennedy, Hugh(2006).When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty.Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.ISBN978-0-306814808.