854
This article is about the year 854. For the number, see 854 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 820s 830s 840s – 850s – 860s 870s 880s |
| Years: | 851 852 853 – 854 – 855 856 857 |
| 854 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 854 DCCCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1607 |
| Armenian calendar | 303 ԹՎ ՅԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5604 |
| Bengali calendar | 261 |
| Berber calendar | 1804 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1398 |
| Burmese calendar | 216 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6362–6363 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3550 or 3490 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3551 or 3491 |
| Coptic calendar | 570–571 |
| Discordian calendar | 2020 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 846–847 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4614–4615 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 910–911 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 776–777 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3955–3956 |
| Holocene calendar | 10854 |
| Iranian calendar | 232–233 |
| Islamic calendar | 239–240 |
| Japanese calendar | Ninju 4 / Saikō 1 (斉衡元年) |
| Julian calendar | 854 DCCCLIV |
| Korean calendar | 3187 |
| Minguo calendar | 1058 before ROC 民前1058年 |
| Seleucid era | 1165/1166 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1396–1397 |
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Year 854 (DCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Emperor Lothair I meets his (half) brothers Louis the German and Charles the Bald in Attigny (Ardennes) for the third time to continue the system of "con-fraternal government".
- The Viking chieftains Rorik and Godfrid Haraldsson return to Demark to gain power after the death of king Horik I. During a civil war they are forced to go back to Friesland.[1]
Britain
- King Æthelwulf of Wessex sends his two youngest sons Alfred and Æthelred on a pilgrimage to Rome.[2]
- King Æthelweard of East Anglia dies and is succeeded by his 14-year-old son Edmund ("the Martyr").[3]
- King Cyngen of Powys makes the first pilgrimage to Rome of a Welsh ruler.
- Viking chieftain Ubba winters in Milford Haven (Wales) with 23 ships.[4]
By topic
Religion
- Eardulf becomes bishop of Lindisfarne after the death of Eanbert.
Births
Deaths
- Æthelweard, king of East Anglia
- Eanbert, bishop of Lindisfarne
- Horik I, Viking king of Denmark
- Luidger, bishop of Utrecht (approximate date)
- Osburh, queen of Wessex (approximate date)
- Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 855)
- Wigmund, archbishop of York
References
- ↑ Norsemen in the Low Countries: Extracts from the Annales Bertiniani, 855 entry
- ↑ ASC 854 - English translation at Project Gutenberg
- ↑ Kirby, The Earliest English Kings, p. 161.
- ↑ Milford Haven Town Council website History, Chronology of Events
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