815
This article is about the year 815. For the number, see 815 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 780s 790s 800s – 810s – 820s 830s 840s |
| Years: | 812 813 814 – 815 – 816 817 818 |
| 815 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 815 DCCCXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1568 |
| Armenian calendar | 264 ԹՎ ՄԿԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5565 |
| Bengali calendar | 222 |
| Berber calendar | 1765 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1359 |
| Burmese calendar | 177 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6323–6324 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3511 or 3451 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3512 or 3452 |
| Coptic calendar | 531–532 |
| Discordian calendar | 1981 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 807–808 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4575–4576 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 871–872 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 737–738 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3916–3917 |
| Holocene calendar | 10815 |
| Iranian calendar | 193–194 |
| Islamic calendar | 199–200 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōnin 6 (弘仁６年) |
| Julian calendar | 815 DCCCXV |
| Korean calendar | 3148 |
| Minguo calendar | 1097 before ROC 民前1097年 |
| Seleucid era | 1126/1127 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1357–1358 |
Map indicating travels of first Scandinavians
Year 815 (DCCCXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty: Emperor Leo V the Armenian signs a 30-year peace agreement in Constantinople with Omurtag, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire. The Rhodope Mountains become the Byzantine border again and Leo regains its lost Black Sea cities, after the Bulgars have them demolished.[1]
Europe
- Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson sets out from the Faroe Islands and discovers Iceland. Documented later in the Landnámabók (approximate date).
Britain
- King Egbert of Wessex ravages the territories of the remaining British kingdom Dumnonia, known as the West Welsh (Cornwall).[2]
Asia
- Emperor Saga of Japan is the first sovereign to drink tea (according to legend), imported from China by monks. The upper classes adopt this beverage for medicinal use.
- July 13 – Wu Yuanheng, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, is murdered by assassin's of warlord Wu Yuanji in Chang'an.
By topic
Religion
- Synod of Constantinople: A council led by patriarch Theodotus I in the Hagia Sophia reinstitutes iconoclasm.[3]
Births
- Dawud al-Zahiri, Muslim scholar (approximate date)
- Eberhard, duke of Friuli (approximate date)
- Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Irish theologian (approximate date)
- Theodora, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
Deaths
- Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber), Muslim alchemist (approximate date)
- Mashallah ibn Athari, Jewish-Arab astrologer
- Muirgius mac Tommaltaig, king of Connacht (Ireland)
- Sadnalegs, emperor of Tibet (approximate date)
- July 13 – Wu Yuanheng, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 758)
References
- ↑ John V.A. Fine, Jr. (1991). The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century, p. 106. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3
- ↑ Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, pp. 58–59
- ↑ Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, pp. 513–514. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
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