This article is about the year 844. For the locomotive, see Union Pacific 844.
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
Decades: | 810s 820s 830s – 840s – 850s 860s 870s |
Years: | 841 842 843 – 844 – 845 846 847 |
844 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 844 DCCCXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 1597 |
Armenian calendar | 293 ԹՎ ՄՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 5594 |
Bahá'í calendar | -1000–-999 |
Bengali calendar | 251 |
Berber calendar | 1794 |
English Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 1388 |
Burmese calendar | 206 |
Byzantine calendar | 6352–6353 |
Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十二月初八日 (3480/3540-12-8) — to —
甲子年十一月十九日(3481/3541-11-19) |
Coptic calendar | 560–561 |
Ethiopian calendar | 836–837 |
Hebrew calendar | 4604–4605 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 900–901 |
- Shaka Samvat | 766–767 |
- Kali Yuga | 3945–3946 |
Holocene calendar | 10844 |
Iranian calendar | 222–223 |
Islamic calendar | 229–230 |
Japanese calendar | |
Julian calendar | 844 DCCCXLIV |
Korean calendar | 3177 |
Minguo calendar | 1068 before ROC 民前1068年 |
Thai solar calendar | 1387 |
Year 844 (DCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- The Abbasids defeat the Byzantine regent Theoktistos at the Battle of Mauropotamos.
Europe
- Rhodri Mawr ('the Great') becomes king of Gwynedd.
- June 15 – Louis II is crowned King of Lombardy by Pope Sergius II.
- Nominoe, Count of Vannes, raids into Maine and plunders the territory.
- According to the Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe makes war on the Vikings.
- Dorestad is raided by the Vikings.
- First Viking attacks on the Muslim possessions of the Iberian peninsula. The Scandinavian raiders sack Sevilla, Niebla, Beja and Lisbon.[1]
By topic
Religion
- January – Pope Sergius II succeeds Pope Gregory IV as the 102nd pope.
Births
Deaths
- January 11 – Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor
- January 25 – Pope Gregory IV
- Berà, first count of Barcelona
- Merfyn Frych ap Gwriad, king of Gwynedd