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Calendar overview 897
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| 897 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 345/346 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 889/890 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1440/41 (southern Buddhism); 1439/40 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 59th (60th) cycle
Year of the Fire Snake丁巳 ( at the beginning of the year Fire Dragon 丙辰) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 259/260 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 275/276 |
| Islamic calendar | 283/284 (February 6/7) |
| Jewish calendar | 4657/58 (August 31 / September 1) |
| Coptic calendar | 613/614 |
| Malayalam calendar | 72/73 |
| Roman calendar |
from urbe condita MDCL (1650)
Diocletian's era : 613/614 (turn of the year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1207/08 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1208/09 (New Year October) |
| Spanish era | 935 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 953/954 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Japan
- August 12th : The Japanese Tennō Uda renounces the throne and retires to the Ninna-ji temple that he built . He is followed by his son Daigo as Tennō .
India
religion
- Synod of bodies in Rome : Pope Stephan VI. has the body of his predecessor Formosus exhumed and tried for alleged abuses.
- August: Stephan VI. is deposed and strangled in the dungeon. His successor is Romanus , who dies in November. His successor Theodor II is only in office for 20 days, but has at least time to overturn the judgment of the synod of corpses and to ensure that Formosus is buried properly.
Born
- Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani , Arab historian, man of letters and poet († 967 )
- Ngô Quyền , King of Viet Nam († 944 )
- Theodora II of Tusculum , Roman Senatrix († around 950)
- around 897: Balderich , Bishop of Utrecht († 975 )
Died
- August: Stephan VI. , Pope
- August 11th : Wilfried I , Catalan nobleman, is considered the founder of Catalonia
- November: Theodore II , Pope
- Braslav Croatian prince
- Zhaozhou Congshen , master of meditation Buddhism in the Chinese Empire (* 778 )
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