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Egbert's coffin from Wessex Æthelwulf from WessexAfter Egbert's death , Æthelwulf becomes king of Wessex .
839 in other calendars
Armenian calendar 287/288 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar 831/832
Buddhist calendar 1382/83 (southern Buddhism); 1381/82 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 58th (59th) cycle

Year of the Earth- Sheep 己未 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Horse 戊午)

Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) 201/202 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar 217/218 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar 224/225 (November 11-12)
Jewish calendar 4599/4600 (September 12-13)
Coptic calendar 555/556
Malayalam calendar 14/15
Roman calendar ab urbe condita MDXCII (1592)

Diocletian's era : 555/556 (November turn of the year)

Seleucid era Babylon: 1149/50 (turn of the year April)

Syria: 1150/51 (turn of the year October)

Spanish era 877
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) 895/896 (turn of the year April)

Events

  • Æthelwulf succeeds his late father Egbert as King of Wessex . He is crowned in Kingston upon Thames. Æthelwulf appoints his eldest son Æthelstan as sub-king of Kent, Essex, Surrey and Sussex while ruling over the old heartland of Wessex (Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset and Devon).
  • The Balaton Principality emerges.
Alte Lahnbrücke in Limburg , part of the Via Publica

Born

  • Charles III , "The fat one", Roman Emperor and King of Eastern Franconia, King of the Western Franconian Empire and King of Italy († 888 )
  • Michael III , Byzantine emperor († 867 )
  • at-Tabarī , Islamic historian († 923 )

Died

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Exact date of death unknown

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