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Events

By Place

Europe

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ December 29 — Charles the Bald, king of west Francia, crowned emperor.

★ The Danes capture Lindisfarne and arrive in Cambridge.

★ Harald Fairhair subdues the rovers on Orkney and Shetland and adds them to his kingdom.

Asia

★ The rebellion of Huang Chao in China begins, weakening the strength of the already declining Tang Dynasty.

★ In Champa, in the central region of what is now Vietnam, King Indravarman II founds a new dynasty at Indrapura (Quang Nam) and initiates a building program featuring the Dong Duong Style of Cham art.

Births

Deaths

★ August 12 — Louis II, western emperor

★ Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist

★ Abu Muslim, Persian hadith compiler