844

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	810s  820s  830s  – 840s –  850s  860s  870s
Years:	841 842 843 – 844 – 845 846 847

844 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

844 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	844 DCCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	1597
Armenian calendar	293 ԹՎ ՄՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	5594
Bengali calendar	251
Berber calendar	1794
Buddhist calendar	1388
Burmese calendar	206
Byzantine calendar	6352–6353
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3540 or 3480     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3541 or 3481
Coptic calendar	560–561
Discordian calendar	2010
Ethiopian calendar	836–837
Hebrew calendar	4604–4605
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	900–901
- Shaka Samvat	766–767
- Kali Yuga	3945–3946
Holocene calendar	10844
Iranian calendar	222–223
Islamic calendar	229–230
Japanese calendar	Jōwa 11 (承和１１年)
Julian calendar	844 DCCCXLIV
Korean calendar	3177
Minguo calendar	1068 before ROC 民前1068年
Seleucid era	1155/1156 AG
Thai solar calendar	1386–1387

Pope Sergius II (844–847)

Year 844 (DCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring – Battle of Mauropotamos: An Byzantine expedition under Theoktistos is sent to Anatolia (modern Turkey) against the Muslim Arabs of the Abbasid Caliphate who have raided the Byzantine themes of Cappadocia, Anatolikon, Boukellarion, and Opsikion. The Byzantines are defeated and many of the officers defect to the Arabs.^[1]

Europe

• Viking raiders ascend the River Garonne as far as the city of Toulouse and pillaging the lands of Septimania. Part of the marauding Vikings invades Galicia (Northern Spain), where some perish in a storm at sea. After being defeated in Corunna, the Scandinavian raiders sack the Umayyad cities of Seville, Niebla, Beja, and Lisbon.^[2]
• Summer – King Charles the Bald struggles against the repeated rebellions in Aquitaine and against the Bretons in West Francia. He besieged Toulouse, while duke Nominoe raids into Maine and plunders other Frankish territory.^[3]
• June 15 – Louis II, eldest son of emperor Lothair I, is crowned king at Rome by pope Sergius II and becomes co-ruler of Middle Francia and over Lombardy, Friuli, and Tuscany in Italy.

Britain

• King Æthelred II of Northumbria is expelled from his kingdom by Rædwulf, who takes the throne. Rædwulf is later killed in battle against the Vikings, along with many of his nobleman. Æthelred returns and claims his right to rule.
• King Merfyn Frych dies after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Rhodri Mawr ("the Great") who becomes ruler of Gwynedd (Wales).

By topic

Religion

• January 25 – Pope Gregory IV dies after a 16-year reign in which he has supported the Frankish policy of late emperor Louis the Pious and established the observance of All Saints' Day. He is succeeded by Sergius II as the 102nd pope of Rome. Sergius imprisons the antipope John VIII who is elected by popular acclamation.

Births

• Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Muslim emir (d. 912)
• Yu Xuanji, Chinese poet (approximate date)

Deaths

• Alberik II, Frankish bishop
• Bera, count of Barcelona
• Bernard I, count of Poitiers
• Bernard I, duke of Septimania
• January 25 – Gregory IV, pope of the Catholic Church
• Hugh, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (b. 802)
• Merfyn Frych, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
• January 11 – Michael I, Byzantine emperor
• Nithard, Frankish historian
• Rædwulf, king of Northumbria (approximate date)
• Theodrada, daughter of Charlemagne (or 853)

References

1. Vasiliev 1935, pp. 399–404.
2. Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
3. AF a. 844: Karolus Aquitaniam, quasi ad partem regni sui iure pertinentem, affectans ... ("Charles wanted Aquitaine, which belonged by right to a part of his kingdom").