Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 811 A.D. through 820 A.D.
- 811 to 820
- 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 Mamun (813 - 833): his reign considered the Augustan
age of Arabian literature and science
- Charlemagne d. 814; succeeded by his son Louis the Pious
(- 840)
- Egbert of Wessex defeats the Britons of Cornwall (815)
- Loius 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
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