Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 801 A.D. through 810 A.D.
- 801 to 810
- Nicephorus I becomes Byzantine Emperor (802 - 810),
dethroning Irene
- Egbert, formerly an Eng. refugee at the court of
Charlemagne, establishes himself as king of Wessex
(802 - 839)
- The Vikings dominate Ireland (802)
- Bulgarians free themselves from Tatar dominance (803)
- Byzantine Empire recognizes independence of Venice (803)
- Charlemagne's last war against Saxons; his domain extends
now to the Elbe (804)
- The future Louis the German, king of the East Franks
(843 - 876), b. 804
- Monastery of Iona sacked by Northmen (806)
- War between the Franks and the Eastern Empire (807)
- Bulgarians conquer Sofia (809)
- Caliph al-Amin (809 - 813) succeeds Harun al-Rashid
- King Godfred of Denmark d. 810
- Krum, king of Bulgaria, defeats and kills the Emperor
Nicephorus I (810)
- Michael I Rangabe, Byzantine Emperor (810 - 813)
- Charlemagne crowns his son Louis the Pious at the diet
of Aix-la-Chapelle (813)
- Leo V, the Armenian, becomes Byzantine Emperor (813 - 820)
- Caliph Mamum (813 - 833): his reign considered the
Augustan age of Arabian literature and science (813)
- Charlemagne d. 814; succeeded by his son Louis the
Pious (814 - 840)
- Egbert of Wessex defeats the Britons of Cornwall (815)
- Louis the Pious divides France among his sons: Lothar
becomes coregent, Louis receives Bavaria, Pepin
Aquitania (817)
- Michael II, the Amorian, Byzantine Emperor (820 - 829):
end of Syrian, beginning of Phrygian, dynasty
- Dismemberment of Abbassid caliphate, fouding of Taherite
dynasty at Khurasan (820)
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