807

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807 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

807 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	807 DCCCVII
Ab urbe condita	1560
Armenian calendar	256 ԹՎ ՄԾԶ
Assyrian calendar	5557
Bengali calendar	214
Berber calendar	1757
Buddhist calendar	1351
Burmese calendar	169
Byzantine calendar	6315–6316
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3503 or 3443     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3504 or 3444
Coptic calendar	523–524
Discordian calendar	1973
Ethiopian calendar	799–800
Hebrew calendar	4567–4568
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	863–864
- Shaka Samvat	728–729
- Kali Yuga	3907–3908
Holocene calendar	10807
Iranian calendar	185–186
Islamic calendar	191–192
Japanese calendar	Daidō 2 (大同２年)
Javanese calendar	703–704
Julian calendar	807 DCCCVII
Korean calendar	3140
Minguo calendar	1105 before ROC 民前1105年
Nanakshahi calendar	−661
Seleucid era	1118/1119 AG
Thai solar calendar	1349–1350

Coin of king Cuthred of Kent (798–807)

Year 807 (DCCCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Nikephoros I is forced to sue for peace on condition of paying 50,000 nomismata to caliph Harun al-Rashid and agrees a yearly tribute. Nikephoros promises not to rebuild the dismantled forts. Rashid recalls his forces from various sieges and evacuates Byzantine territory.^[1][2][3]
• An Abbasid fleet under Humayd ibn Ma'yuf al-Hajuri raids the Peloponnese, Rhodes and Myra.^[4]

Europe

• Al-Andalus (modern Spain): Uprising in the city of Mérida against the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba.^[5]
• Siege of Patras: Marks the end of independent rule by the South Slavs in the Peloponnese (or 805).

Britain

• The Vikings land on the Cornish coast, and form an alliance with the Cornish to fight against Wessex.
• Death of king Cuthred of Kent. His brother, king Coenwulf of Mercia takes control over Kent himself.

Asia

• Dappula II becomes king of Sri Lanka and makes Anuradhapura the capital city.
• Li Jifu is appointed chancellor during the reign of emperor Xian Zong in China.

By topic

Religion

• The Temple of Motoyama-ji in Mitoyo (Japan), of the Kōyasan Shingon-shū sect, is constructed by the orders of emperor Heizei.
• The Jame' Atiq Mosque of Qazvin is constructed in Qazvin (modern Iran) by the orders of Harun al-Rashid.
• The Book of Armagh is written by the Irish illuminator Ferdomnach, a scribe at the School of Armagh.

Science

• The first record of sun spots appears in Europe.

Births

• Dongshan Liangjie, Chinese Buddhist teacher (d. 869)

Deaths

• Conall mac Taidg, king of the Picts (approximate date)
• Cuthred, king of Kent
• Robert II, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
• October 13 – Simpert, bishop of Augsburg
• Stephen the Hymnographer, Syrian monk (b. 725)
• Widukind, duke of Saxony (approximate date)

References

1. Bosworth 1989, p. 263
2. Treadgold 1988, pp. 145, 408 (Note 190).
3. Mango & Scott 1997, p. 662.
4. Treadgold 1988, p. 148.
5. Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.

Sources

• Bosworth, C. E., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXX: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium. The Caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–193. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-88706-564-3.
• Mango, Cyril; Scott, Roger (1997). The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284–813. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822568-7.
• Treadgold, Warren T. (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1462-2.