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NOTOC Year 854 (DCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Emperor Lothair I meets his (half) brothers (Louis the German and Charles the Bald) in Attigny, Ardennes for the third time, to continue the system of "con-fraternal government".
- Viking chieftains Rorik and Godfrid Haraldsson return to Denmark, to gain power after the death of King Horik I. During a civil war, they are forced to go back to Friesland.
- The German city of Ulm is first mentioned, in a document by Louis the German.
- Croatian–Bulgarian battle: Bulgarian Khan (later Knyaz) Boris I, attacks the Duchy of Littoral Croatia, ruled by Duke Trpimir I during the First Croatian-Bulgarian War. It is fought on the Croatian territory in the vicinity of the Croatian–Bulgarian border in present-day northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. None of the warring sides emerges victorious, Bulgarian forces retreat and finally both parties subsequently conclude a peace treaty.
Britain
- King Æthelwulf of Wessex sends his two youngest sons, Alfred and Æthelred, on a pilgrimage to Rome.
- King Æthelweard of East Anglia dies, and is succeeded by his 14-year-old son Edmund ("the Martyr").
- King Cyngen of Powys makes the first pilgrimage to Rome of a Welsh ruler.
- Viking chieftain Ubba winters in Milford Haven (Wales) with 23 ships.
By topic
Religion
- Eardulf becomes bishop of Lindisfarne, after the death of Eanbert.
Births
- Al-Mu'tadid, Muslim caliph (or 861)
- Cadell ap Rhodri, king of Seisyllwg (d. 909)
- Cui Yin, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 904)
- Theobald the Elder, Frankish nobleman (d. 942)
Deaths
- Abu Thawr, Muslim scholar (b. 764)
- Æthelweard, king of East Anglia
- Eanbert, bishop of Lindisfarne
- Horik I, Viking king of Denmark
- Liudger, bishop of Utrecht (approximate date)
- Osburh, queen of Wessex (approximate date)
- Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 855)
- Túathal mac Máele-Brigte, king of Leinster
- Wang Yuankui, Chinese general (b. 812)
- Wigmund, archbishop of York
References
References
- [http://home.tiscali.nl/gjallar/Bronnen_AB.htm Norsemen in the Low Countries: Extracts from the Annales Bertiniani, 855 entry] {{webarchive. link. (June 14, 2011)
- [http://www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin/2016/48/stadtgeburtstag-alter-staedte-deutschlandkarte Zeit.de: Das Alter der Städte]
- (2021-11-13). "Boris I". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc..
- Fine, John van Antwerp. (13 November 2021). "The Early Medieval Balkans, page 112". The University of Michigan Press, 1983.
- Deliso, Christopher. (13 November 2021). "The History of Croatia and Slovenia, page 46". ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020, Santa Barbara, California.
- ''ASC'' 854 - English translation at [http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/657/pg657.html Project Gutenberg]
- Kirby, ''The Earliest English Kings'', p. 161.
- [http://www.milfordhaventowncouncil.org.uk/Milford%20History%20Section/history_time_line_main.htm Milford Haven Town Council website ''History'', Chronology of Events] {{webarchive. link. (March 13, 2012)
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