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Contents

Events

Asia

Europe

By Topic

Religion

Births

Deaths

Events

Asia

★ First siege of Constantinople by the Rus.

Europe

★ Ethelbert succeeds as king of Wessex.

★ The later Harald I of Norway becomes king.

By Topic

Religion

★ Michael I succeeds Sophronius I as patriarch of Alexandria.

★ Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrive in Khazaria.

Births

★ Hrolf Ganger, A Jarl known from Icelandic/Norwegian sagas

Deaths

★ Ethelbald of Wessex

★ Halfdan the Black, king of parts of Norway (b. 820)