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Calendar overview 823
Map with all linked sites: | 823 | |
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 Thomas the Slav , take prisoner and execute him. |
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| 823 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 271/272 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 815/816 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1366/67 (southern Buddhism); 1365/66 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 58th (59th) cycle
Year of the water hare癸卯 ( at the beginning of the year water tiger 壬寅) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 185/186 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 201/202 (around March 21) |
| Islamic calendar | 207/208 (May 15/16) |
| Jewish calendar | 4583/84 (9/10 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 539/540 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDLXXVI (1576)
Diocletian's era : 539/540 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1133/34 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1134/35 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 861 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 879/880 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Franconian Empire
- April 5th : Pope Paschalis I crowns Lothar I as co-emperor in the Frankish empire, which his father Ludwig the Pious rules.
Byzantine Empire
- The Byzantine counter-emperor Thomas the Slav , who last year because of the intervention of the
Bulgarian Khans Omurtag had to break off the siege of Constantinople , tries to restart the siege, but is defeated by the troops of Emperor Michael II in May and pushed back to a few permanent places in Thrace .
The Capture and Punishment of Thomas the Slav, Madrid Illuminated Manuscript of the Skylitz
- October: Thomas the Slav is handed over to Emperor Michael II by his own people and executed by impalation. His co-regent Anastasios suffers the same fate. Two supporters of Thomas, Choireas and Gazarenos Colony , can stay in Asia Minor for a few more months.
- Saracens from the western Mediterranean invade the island of Crete, part of the Byzantine Empire .
North africa
- The Midrarid dynasty took control of the Kharijite emirate of Sidschilmasa in what is now Morocco.
British Islands
- Viking Age : Vikings try to conquer the Irish monastery island of Skellig Michael .
- Beornwulf takes the throne of Mercia .
First documentary mentions
- First documentary mention of Bettighofen , Lauffen am Neckar , Gunzenhausen and Nordheim
religion
Christianity
- Herford Abbey is to Reichsabtei levied.
- 822 - 824 : Book of fraternities of Reichenau Abbey
Islam
- Founding of Mashhad , one of the seven holy places of Shiite Islam, on the site of the tomb of ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ar-Ridā
Born
- June 13 : Charles II the Bald , West Franconian King and Emperor († 877 )
- Muhammad I , Emir of Cordoba († 886 )
Died
- October: Thomas the Slav , Byzantine counter-emperor
- Al-Wāqidī , Arab historian (* 747 )
- Ljudevit , Croatian prince
- Ceolwulf I of Mercien , king of a small Anglo-Saxon kingdom