803
This article is about the year 803. For the number, see 803 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 770s 780s 790s – 800s – 810s 820s 830s |
| Years: | 800 801 802 – 803 – 804 805 806 |
| 803 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 803 DCCCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1556 |
| Armenian calendar | 252 ԹՎ ՄԾԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5553 |
| Bengali calendar | 210 |
| Berber calendar | 1753 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1347 |
| Burmese calendar | 165 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6311–6312 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3499 or 3439 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3500 or 3440 |
| Coptic calendar | 519–520 |
| Discordian calendar | 1969 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 795–796 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4563–4564 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 859–860 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 725–726 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3904–3905 |
| Holocene calendar | 10803 |
| Iranian calendar | 181–182 |
| Islamic calendar | 187–188 |
| Japanese calendar | Enryaku 22 (延暦２２年) |
| Julian calendar | 803 DCCCIII |
| Korean calendar | 3136 |
| Minguo calendar | 1109 before ROC 民前1109年 |
| Seleucid era | 1114/1115 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1345–1346 |
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Territorial expansion of Krum (803–814)
Year 803 (DCCCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Emperors Nikephoros I and Charlemagne settle their imperial boundaries in the Adriatic Sea and sign Pax Nicephori ("Peace of Nikephoros"). The Byzantines retain controle of the coastal cities and islands in Dalmatian Croatia, while Frankish rule is accepted over Istria and the Dalmatian hinterland.[1] Venice is recognized as independent by the Byzantine Empire.
- Summer – Bardanes Tourkos, Byzantine general (strategos), is proclaimed emperor by the troops of the Anatolic, Opsikion, Thracian and Bucellarian themes. The 'rebel' army marched to Chrysopolis, an suburb of Constantinople. After the defection of two of his trusted aids, future emperors Leo the Armenian and Michael the Amorian, Bardanes negotiates peace.
Europe
- May – Krum, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, begins his territorial expansion and raids the Byzantine northern frontier. He leads his warriors — mostly Bulgars, Slavs, Thracians and Hellenized Macedonians — across the Carpathian Mountains, over the Danube River, and throughout Transylvania, Thrace, and Macedonia.
- Stiftskeller St. Peter, possibly Central Europe's oldest restaurant is founded.[2]
Arabian Empire
- Caliph Harun al-Rashid has his friend Ja'far ibn Yahya beheaded, possibly because for having an affair with his sister Abassa. Surviving members of the influential Barmakids, formerly Buddhist leaders of the Nava Vihara monastery, are imprisoned on orders of Harun and their property is confiscated.
By topic
Religion
- October 12 – The Synod of Clofesho (possibly Brixworth) is held, at which the Archbishopric of Lichfield is demoted to an ordinary bishopric, with papel permission obtained by king Coenwulf of Mercia.
Births
- Du Mu, Chinese poet and official (d. 852)
- Emma of Altdorf, Frankish queen (or 808)
Deaths
- June 24 – Higbald, bishop of Lindisfarne
- August 9 – Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress
- Ja'far ibn Yahya, Persian vizier (b. 767)
- Kardam, ruler (khan) of the Bulgaria (or 802)
References
- ↑ Florin Curta: Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, p. 135
- ↑ MYTravelGuide Stifskeller St Peter
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