839
This article is about the year 839. For the number, see 839 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 800s 810s 820s – 830s – 840s 850s 860s |
| Years: | 836 837 838 – 839 – 840 841 842 |
| 839 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 839 DCCCXXXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1592 |
| Armenian calendar | 288 ԹՎ ՄՁԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5589 |
| Bengali calendar | 246 |
| Berber calendar | 1789 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1383 |
| Burmese calendar | 201 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6347–6348 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3535 or 3475 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 3536 or 3476 |
| Coptic calendar | 555–556 |
| Discordian calendar | 2005 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 831–832 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4599–4600 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 895–896 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 761–762 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3940–3941 |
| Holocene calendar | 10839 |
| Iranian calendar | 217–218 |
| Islamic calendar | 224–225 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōwa 6 (承和６年) |
| Julian calendar | 839 DCCCXXXIX |
| Korean calendar | 3172 |
| Minguo calendar | 1073 before ROC 民前1073年 |
| Seleucid era | 1150/1151 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1381–1382 |
King Æthelwulf of Wessex (839–858)
Year 839 (DCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Prince Sicard of Benevento is assassinated by a conspiracy among the nobility. He is succeeded by Radelchis I, chief army officer and treasurer of Sicard, who proclaims himself ruler of Benevento. He imprisons Siconulf, heir and brother of Sicard, in Taranto. But Amalfitan merchants led by Landulf I the gastald of Capua and, with support of Guaifer, rescue him from prison. Siconulf is proclaimed prince of Salerno, and a civil war erupts which splits the Lombard principality in Southern Italy.[1]
- Third Civil War: King Louis the German, grandson of Charlemagne, invades Swabia. His nephew Pepin II of Aquitaine and his Gascon subjects conquers territory all the way to the Loire.
- Approximate date – Danish Vikings return to ravage the Frisian coast (sacking Dorestad for the second time).
Britain
- King Egbert of Wessex dies after a 37-year reign and is succeeded by his son Æthelwulf ("Noble Wolf") as ruler of Wessex. Æthelwulf's eldest son Æthelstan, is made sub-king of Kent, Essex, Surrey and Sussex under his father.[2]
- Approximate date – Alpín II begins his reign as king of Dál Riata (modern Scotland).
Births
- Charles the Fat, Frankish emperor (d. 888)
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Persian scholar (d. 923)
Deaths
- Aznar I, king of Aragon
- Egbert, king of Wessex
- Eóganan, king of the Picts
- Muiredach mac Eochada, king of Ulaid (Ireland)
- Rorgon I, count of Maine (or 840)
- Sicard, prince of Benevento
- Wiglaf, king of Mercia
References
- ↑ Kreutz, Barbara M (1991). Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, p. 23 (University of Pennsylvania, Press: Philadelphia).
- ↑ Williams 1991a; Stenton 1971, p. 231; Kirby 2000, pp. 155–56.
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