800 To 8498000800s - Military Technology Belfroys, large, wheeled, wooden siege towers with a drawbridge are used against fortifications. As are battering rams, with large ones are mounted on wheels in a covered shed.test
0800s - Military Technology Chinese chemists mix black powder.
0800s - Military Technology The crossbow appears.
c - IrelandLiterature The illuminated maunscript The book of Kells is written.
x - Charlemagne and his massive entourage, including his children, went to Rome. Charlemagne immediately called to order a trial for Leo III. There was a mass conspiracy in Rome against the Pope, and the trial could neither condemn him or find him innocent. Then, Pope Leo took an oath of innocence near the holy tomb of Saint Peter. After this bold move, the Pope achieved enormous popularity and was universally accepted as innocent. re.List of Popes
x - Japan The shoen system is refined and expands; the strength of the warrior houses in the northern provinces steadily grows.
dec 25 - Rome Christmas Day Leo III crowns Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor r.u.814 in Saint Peter's Basilica and, for the only time in Papal history, a pope bows before an earthly king.Charlemagne is the undisputed ruler of Western Europe. His realm includes what are now France, Switzerland, Belgium, and The Netherlands, half of present-day Italy and Germany, and parts of Austria and Spain. By establishment of a central government over Western Europe, Charlemagne restores much of the unity of the old Roman Empire and paves the way for the development of modern Europe.
801dec 28 - Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona.
802x - St. Paulinus of Aquileia dies.
x - King Jayavarman II of Khmer people of Cambodia founds Angkorian dynasty which becomes centre of Khmer life
oct 31 - Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out.
803aug 09 - Irene, Byzantine empress and wife of emperor Leo IV, dies.
804mar 30 - Liudger becomes 1st bishop of M?nster.
may 19 - Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours, France at 69.
806x - Japan Emperor Kammu dies.
x - Japan First year of Daid?.
808aug 03 - China P'ang Yun, Layman P'ang, Exemplary Zen practitioner, dies.
809mar 24 - Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire 786-mar 24 809, dies at 44.
mar 26 - Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of M?nster/saint, dies at about 66.
810x - Japan First year of K?nin.
jul 08 - Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies.
811jul 26 - Battle at PliskaBulgarian under monarch Krum beat Byzantine.
jul 26 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor r.802-jul 26 811, dies in battle.
dec 04 - Charles, eldest son of emperor Charlemagne, dies at about 39.
813sep 11 - Charlemagne delegates power to his only surviving son Louis I the Pious, crowning him co-emperor.
814jan 28 - Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor r.800-814, dies at 71 and the empire is given to his son Louis the Pious.
816feb 05 - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity.
jun 12 - Pope Leo III r.795-jun 12 816 dies.
jun 22 - Pope Stephen IV, elected to succeed Pope Leo III.
817jan 24 - St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV.
jan 24 - Pope Stephen V r.816-0817c, dies. re.((List of Popes}}
818apr 17 - Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies.
820821feb 11 - Benedict of Aniane, saint, dies.
822x - Japan Saich?, the founder of the Tendai sect of Buddhism and the Enryaku-Ji temple on Mt. Hiei, dies.
823apr 05 - Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France.
jun 13 - Charles II, the Bald, King of France 843-
824x - Japan First year of Tench?.
feb 11 - Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies.
feb 11 - St Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
825c - Caliph Mamun sponsors translations of Greek learning into Arabic.
826nov 11 - Theodorus Studites, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies.
828830c - Nennius compiles Historia Brittonum.
833jun 30 - Louis, king of Austria, crowned.
jul 20 - Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63.
834x - Japan First year of Sh?wa.
oct 31 - 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints.
835x - England Vikings invade Sheppey.
837x - England Battle of Hingston Down.
feb 27 - 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
apr 10 - Comet 1P/837 F1 Halley's Comet approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth.
apr 13 - Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years.
838jan 04 - Babak, Persian social/religious reformer, martyred.
dec 13 - Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies.
839x - England Ethulwulf becomes king of Wessex.
840x - Louis the Pious dies and the empire is divided among his sons as the height of the Vikings attacks starts
mar 14 - Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69.
jun 06 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies.
jun 20 - Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies.
841jul 25 - Battle at Fontenay Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I.
842feb 14 - Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty.
feb 19 - Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches.
843mar 11 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople.
apr 19 - Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies.
jun 24 - Vikings destroy Nantes.
aug 10 - Treaty of VerdunBrothers Lotharius I, Louis the German, and Charles the Bare divide France.
844jan 25 - Gregory IV begins & ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
845x - China Buddhism persecuted and monastaries dissolved
846847x - Japan Miyoshi Kiyotsura is born.
x - Scots and Picts unify.
jan 27 - Sergius II 844-jan 27 847, dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope.
apr 10 - St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
848x - Japan First year of Kaj?.
aug 01 - Frantisek Kmoch, composer, is born.
849x - England Alfred 'the Great' is born.
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