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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

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)