Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 831 A.D. through 840 A.D.
- 831 to 840
- Caliph Mamun invades Egypt (832)
- Kenneth MacAlpin, king of Kintyre (832), of the Scots (839),
and of the Picts (844)
- Caliph Motassim, the builder of Samarra, the new seat of
government (833)
- King Louis I defeated by his three sons at Colmar and
deposed (833)
- The Danes raid England (834)
- King Louis I restored to his throne (see 833) [834]
- New division of the Frankish Empire between King Louis
the Pious and his son Lothar I (837)
- War between Wessex and the Danes (837)
- Arabs sack Marseilles and settle in southern Italy;
in battle at Amorion, Asia Minor, they defeat the
Byzantine army (838)
- Ethelwulf, king of England (839 - 858)
- Charles III, the Fat, youngest son of Louis the German
and grandson of Charlemagne, future Frankish king and
emperor, b. 839
- Louis I, the Pious, Frankish emperor d. 840 (see 814);
succeeded by Lothar I (- 855)
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