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| Gregorian calendar | 816 DCCCXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1569 |
| Armenian calendar | 265 ԹՎ ՄԿԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5566 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 737–738 |
| Bengali calendar | 222–223 |
| Berber calendar | 1766 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1360 |
| Burmese calendar | 178 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6324–6325 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3513 or 3306 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3514 or 3307 |
| Coptic calendar | 532–533 |
| Discordian calendar | 1982 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 808–809 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4576–4577 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 872–873 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 737–738 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3916–3917 |
| Holocene calendar | 10816 |
| Iranian calendar | 194–195 |
| Islamic calendar | 200–201 |
| Japanese calendar | Kōnin 7 (弘仁７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 712–713 |
| Julian calendar | 816 DCCCXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3149 |
| Minguo calendar | 1096 before ROC 民前1096年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −652 |
| Seleucid era | 1127/1128 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1358–1359 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 942 or 561 or −211 — to — མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 943 or 562 or −210 |
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Year 816 (DCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 816th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 816th year of the 1st millennium, the 16th year of the 9th century, and the 7th year of the 810s decade.
Events
[edit | edit source]By place
[edit | edit source]Europe
[edit | edit source]- October 5 – King Louis the Pious (son of Charlemagne) is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, by Pope Stephen IV at Reims. He also crowns the emperor's wife Ermengarde as Holy Roman Empress. The ceremony in Reims re-establishes the principle of papal supremacy, by recognising the importance of the pope in imperial coronations. Louis gives the pope many gifts, including the estate tax Vendeuvre, near Troyes (Northern France).[1]
- Vikings raid Ireland at the Kingdom of Munster, at Inish Cathaigh.[2]
- Battle of Pancorbo: A Moorish army from the Emirate of Córdoba is sent by Emir Al-Hakam I, to take control of the pass at Pancorbo. They defeat the army of Asturian-Basque Frankish vassals.[3]
- Winter – The Basques, supported by the Moors, cross the Garonne River and revolt against the Franks in Gascony (north of the Pyrenees).[4]
Britain
[edit | edit source]- King Hywel of Gwynedd is attacked by his brother Cynan on Anglesey (modern Wales), who is killed during the fighting (approximate date).
Abbasid Caliphate
[edit | edit source]- Babak Khorramdin, Persian military leader, revolts against the Abbasid Caliphate in Azerbaijan (approximate date).
By topic
[edit | edit source]Religion
[edit | edit source]- Synod of Aachen: Louis the Pious calls for a council about the regulations (Institutio canonicorum Aquisgranensis) for monastic life in the Frankish Empire.
- Synod of Chelsea: King Coenwulf of Mercia calls for a council about his right to appoint abbots and monasteries in England.
- June 12 – Pope Leo III dies after a 20-year reign, and is succeeded by Pope Stephen IV as the 97th pope of Rome.
Births
[edit | edit source]- Formosus, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date)
- Henjō, Japanese waka poet (d. 890)
Deaths
[edit | edit source]- June 12 – Leo III, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 750)
- October 28 – Beggo, count of Toulouse and Paris
- Cynan Dindaethwy, king of Gwynedd (Wales)
- Fātimah bint Mūsā, Muslim saint (b. 790)
- Harthama ibn A'yan, Muslim governor
- Hildoard, archbishop of Cambrai
- Li He, Chinese poet (b. 790)[5]
- Empress Dowager Wang (Xianzong), Chinese empress
- Wulfar, archbishop of Reims
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Salvador Miranda (1998). The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: Pope Stefano IV (815–817).
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- ^ Islam and Europe Timeline (355–1291 AD).
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