829

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	790s  800s  810s  – 820s –  830s  840s  850s
Years:	826 827 828 – 829 – 830 831 832

829 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

829 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	829 DCCCXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1582
Armenian calendar	278 ԹՎ ՄՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	5579
Bengali calendar	236
Berber calendar	1779
Buddhist calendar	1373
Burmese calendar	191
Byzantine calendar	6337–6338
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3525 or 3465     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3526 or 3466
Coptic calendar	545–546
Discordian calendar	1995
Ethiopian calendar	821–822
Hebrew calendar	4589–4590
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	885–886
- Shaka Samvat	751–752
- Kali Yuga	3930–3931
Holocene calendar	10829
Iranian calendar	207–208
Islamic calendar	213–214
Japanese calendar	Tenchō 6 (天長６年)
Julian calendar	829 DCCCXXIX
Korean calendar	3162
Minguo calendar	1083 before ROC 民前1083年
Seleucid era	1140/1141 AG
Thai solar calendar	1371–1372

Theophilos is crowned Byzantine Emperor

Year 829 (DCCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• October 2 – Emperor Michael II dies after a 8-year reign in Constantinople and is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Theophilos as sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He continues his fathers ideology of iconoclasm.^[1]
• October – Battle of Thasos: Saracens from the newly found Emirate of Crete almost annihilate the Byzantine fleet at Thasos, close to the coast of Thrace. The Cyclades and other islands in the Aegean Sea are pillaged.^[2]

Europe

• Emperor Louis the Pious appoints his 6-year-old son Charles by his second wife Judith, as ruler of the Frankish subkingdom Alamannia. Enraging his eldest son Lothair I and co-emperor, who begins to insurrect.
• Viking chieftain Halfdan the Black becomes king of Agder (modern Norway). He expands his realm through military conquest and political negotiations, dividing the kingdom of Vestfold with his half-brother Olaf.
• Giustiniano Participazio, doge of Venice, dies after a 2-year reign and is succeeded by his younger brother Giovanni Participazio. He continues the work of Giustiniano in construction of the St. Mark's Basilica.

Britain

• King Egbert of Wessex invades Mercia, ousts his rival Wiglaf and attemps to rule directly from Wessex. He is recognized as overlord (bretwalda) of other English kingdoms.
• Winter – Battle of the River Dore: Egbert of Wessex leads his army against the Northumbrians as far as Dore, were he clashes with king Eanred of Northumbria.

Egypt

• The Nile River freezes over.^[3]

China

• The Bai kingdom of Nanzhao captures the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province.

By topic

Religion

• Ansgar, Frankish abbot of Corvey (modern Westphalia), is appointed missionary to Sweden by Louis the Pious, at the request of the Swedish king Björn at Haugi.
• The city of Wiesbaden (Germany) is first mentioned by Einhard, biographer of former emperor Charlemagne (approximate date).

Births

• Al-Nasa'i, Muslim scholar and hadith compiler (approximate date)

Deaths

• Cui Zhi, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 772)
• Giustiniano Participazio, doge of Venice
• October 2 – Michael II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 770)
• Wei Chuhou, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 773)
• Zheng Yin, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 752)

References

1. Timothy E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium, (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010), p. 227.
2. Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842, Stanford University Press, p. 268. ISBN 0-8047-1462-2.
3. Lamb, H. H. (1977) Climate: Present, Past and Future: Climatic History and the Future Vol 2, Methuen and Co. Ltd., London.