828

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	790s  800s  810s  – 820s –  830s  840s  850s
Years:	825 826 827 – 828 – 829 830 831

828 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

828 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	828 DCCCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1581
Armenian calendar	277 ԹՎ ՄՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	5578
Bengali calendar	235
Berber calendar	1778
Buddhist calendar	1372
Burmese calendar	190
Byzantine calendar	6336–6337
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3524 or 3464     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3525 or 3465
Coptic calendar	544–545
Discordian calendar	1994
Ethiopian calendar	820–821
Hebrew calendar	4588–4589
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	884–885
- Shaka Samvat	750–751
- Kali Yuga	3929–3930
Holocene calendar	10828
Iranian calendar	206–207
Islamic calendar	212–213
Japanese calendar	Tenchō 5 (天長５年)
Julian calendar	828 DCCCXXVIII
Korean calendar	3161
Minguo calendar	1084 before ROC 民前1084年
Seleucid era	1139/1140 AG
Thai solar calendar	1370–1371

Mark the Evangelist, by José Leonardo

Year 828 (DCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Siege of Syracuse: The Muslims under Asad ibn al-Furat defeat a Byzantine relief army sent from Palermo and backed by a Venetian fleet led by Giustiniano Participazio. Al-Furat decides to break off the siege at Syracuse, his forces suffer greatly from lack of food. Later he dies during an outbreak of an epidemic.
• Summer – Euphemius, Byzantine admiral, is murdered by emissaries from the Byzantine garrison at Castrogiovanni which is besieged by the Muslims. Threatened by Byzantine reinforcements arriving from Constantinople, the survivors burn their ships and retreat overland westward to Mazara del Vallo.^[1][2]

Europe

• Al-Andalus: The city of Merida (modern Spain) rises twice in one year against the Umayyad emirate.^[3]
• Kydonia on the northwest coast of Crete is destroyed by Saracen pirates (approximate date).
• Alcamo in Sicily is founded by the Muslim commander al-Kamuk (approximate date).

China

• In the capital of Chang'an, a powerful court eunuch orders 50 wrestlers to arrest 300 commoners over a land property dispute in Northwest Chang'an, whereupon a riot breaks out in the streets.

By topic

Religion

• Relics of Mark the Evangelist are stolen from Alexandria (controlled by the Abbasid Caliphate) by two Venetian merchants and brought to Venice.^[4]
• At the instigation of Adalram, archbishop of Salzburg, the first Christian church in Central and Eastern Europe is built in Nitra, Pannonia.^[5]
• A Coptic revolt breaks out in Egypt (approximate date).

Births

• Al-Dinawari, astronomer and grammarian (d. 889)
• September 8 – Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
• Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king (or 830)

Deaths

• Asad ibn al-Furat, Muslim jurist and theologian (b. 759)
• Euphemius, Byzantine admiral and usuper
• Ibn Hisham, Muslim historian (or 833)
• Idriss II, Muslim emir of Morocco (b. 791) ^[6]
• Nikephoros I, patriarch of Constantinople

References

1. Treadgold (1988), pp. 253–254
2. Vasiliev (1935), pp. 83–84
3. Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 86. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
4. Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A study in diplomatic and cultural relations (Cambrigde: University Press, 1988), p. 24.
5. Klein, "Adalram"
6. Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 28.