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Events
By Place
Europe
★
Louis the German invades
West Francia, hoping to secure
Aquitaine from his brother
Charles the Bald, but fails.
★
Donald I succeeds the throne of
Scotland.
Asia
★
Emperor Seiwa ascends the throne of
Japan.
★ An enormous
flood along the
Grand Canal of China inundates large tracts of the
North China Plain, killing tens of thousands of people and adding to the further decline of the
Tang Dynasty.
By Topic
Religion
★
April 24 —
Pope Nicholas I succeeds
Pope Benedict III as the 105th
pope.
★
Patriarch Ignatius is imprisoned and (
December 25) deposed to be succeeded by
patriarch Photius I.
Births
Deaths
★
January 13 — King
Ethelwulf of Wessex
★
April 7 —
Pope Benedict III
★ King
Kenneth I of Scotland
★
Emperor Montoku of Japan (b.
827)
★
Li Shangyin Chinese poet and official (b. between 810 and 813)