Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 841 A.D. through 850 A.D.
- 841 to 850
- Lothar I defeated by his two brothers Louis and Charles
in the battle of Fontenoy (841)
- The Northmen plunder Rouen and advance to Paris (841)
- Halfdan of Norway subjects the nobles and founds the
monarchy (841)
- Caliph Wathik (842 - 847)
- Michael III, the Drunkard, Byzantine Emperor (842 - 867)
- Turkish mercenaries join Arab armies (842)
- Treaty of Verdun, division of the Frankish empire:
Lothar receives Italy and Lorraine and remains
Emperor; France goes to Charles II, the Bald; Germany
to Louis I, the German (843)
- Three Carolingian dynasties: German (843 - 911),
French (843 - 987), Italian (843 - 875)
- Kenneth, king of the Scots, defeats the Picts and
becomes sole monarch (844)
- Northmen destroy Hamburg and penetrate into Germany (845)
- The Arabs sack Rome and damage the Vatican (846)
- Venetian fleet destroyed by Arabs (846)
- Moimir I, prince of Moravia, d. 846 and is succeeded by
Rostislav
- Caliph Mottawakkil (847 - 860)
- Alfred the Great, b. 849 (d. 899)
- Bulgarian Empire on the Volga, with capital Bolgary (850)
- Rurik, a Northman, becomes ruler of Kiev; his compatriots
begin, along the waterways of Russia, to trade with
Constantinople and the Khazans (850)
- Tibetan power collapses (850)
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