848
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century · 9th century · 10th century |
| Decades: | 810s · 820s · 830s · 840s · 850s · 860s · 870s |
| Years: | 845 · 846 · 847 · 848 · 849 · 850 · 851 |
| 848 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 848 DCCCXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1601 |
| Armenian calendar | 297 ԹՎ ՄՂԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5598 |
| Bengali calendar | 255 |
| Berber calendar | 1798 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1392 |
| Burmese calendar | 210 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6356–6357 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3544 or 3484 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3545 or 3485 |
| Coptic calendar | 564–565 |
| Discordian calendar | 2014 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 840–841 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4608–4609 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 904–905 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 769–770 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3948–3949 |
| Holocene calendar | 10848 |
| Iranian calendar | 226–227 |
| Islamic calendar | 233–234 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōwa 15 / Kashō 1 (嘉祥元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 745–746 |
| Julian calendar | 848 DCCCXLVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3181 |
| Minguo calendar | 1064 before ROC 民前1064年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −620 |
| Seleucid era | 1159/1160 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1390–1391 |
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Year 848 (DCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Summer – Bordeaux, capital of Aquitaine, falls into the hands of Viking raiders. King Charles the Bald sends a Frankish fleet to lift the siege. Despite destroying some Viking longships on the Dordogne River they fail to save the city. The Abbey of Saint-Pierre in Brantôme is sacked.
- Emperor Lothair I and his (half) brothers Louis the German and Charles the Bald meet in Koblenz to continue the system of "con-fraternal government".
- Frankish forces under count (comté) William of Septimania assume authority over the counties of Barcelona and Empúries (modern Spain).
- The Saracens conquer Ragusa (Sicily) after its Byzantine garrison is forced by severe famine to surrender. The city and its castle are raze to the ground.[1]
Britain
- The armies of Brycheiniog and Gwent clash in the battle of Ffinnant (Wales). King Ithel of Gwent is killed in the fighting (approximate date).
- Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid, High King of Mide, defeats a Norse Viking army at Sciath Nechtain in Ireland (approximate date).
Asia
- The Chola Dynasty in Southern India starts to rule (approximate date).
By topic
Religion
- Pope Leo IV builds on the opposite of the Tiber River the Leonine City, a fortified three-kilometre wall encircles the Vatican Hill and Borgo to defend Rome.[2]
- The Roman Catholic church of Santa María del Naranco on the slope of Monte Naranco (Northern Spain) is completed.
Births
- Alfonso III, king of Asturias (approximate date)
- Carloman, Frankish abbot (d. 877)
- Charles the Child, king of Aquitaine (or 847)
- Lothair the Lame, Frankish abbot (d. 865)
- Onneca Fortúnez, Basque princess (or 850)
Deaths
- Ali ibn Muhammad, Muslim sultan (b. 827)
- Cui Yuanshi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
- Drest X, king of the Picts
- Guo, empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty
- Ithel, king of Gwent (approximate date)
- Li Gongzuo, Chinese writer
- Malik ibn Kaydar, Muslim governor
- Rechtabhra, bishop of Clonfert
- Shi Xiong, Chinese general
- Sunifred, Frankish nobleman
- Sunyer I, Frankish nobleman
- William I, duke of Gascony
- Yahya al-Laithi, Muslim scholar
References
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