815
Year 815 (DCCCXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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815 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 815 DCCCXV |
Ab urbe condita | 1568 |
Armenian calendar | 264 ԹՎ ՄԿԴ |
Assyrian calendar | 5565 |
Balinese saka calendar | 736–737 |
Bengali calendar | 222 |
Berber calendar | 1765 |
Buddhist calendar | 1359 |
Burmese calendar | 177 |
Byzantine calendar | 6323–6324 |
Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3511 or 3451 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3512 or 3452 |
Coptic calendar | 531–532 |
Discordian calendar | 1981 |
Ethiopian calendar | 807–808 |
Hebrew calendar | 4575–4576 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 871–872 |
- Shaka Samvat | 736–737 |
- Kali Yuga | 3915–3916 |
Holocene calendar | 10815 |
Iranian calendar | 193–194 |
Islamic calendar | 199–200 |
Japanese calendar | Kōnin 6 (弘仁6年) |
Javanese calendar | 711–712 |
Julian calendar | 815 DCCCXV |
Korean calendar | 3148 |
Minguo calendar | 1097 before ROC 民前1097年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −653 |
Seleucid era | 1126/1127 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1357–1358 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 941 or 560 or −212 — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 942 or 561 or −211 |
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Map indicating travels of first Scandinavians
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty: Emperor Leo V the Armenian signs a 30-year peace agreement in Constantinople with Omurtag, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire. The Rhodope Mountains become the Byzantine border again, and Leo regains its lost Black Sea cities, after the Bulgars have them demolished.[1]
Europe
- Hrafna-Flóki Vilgerðarson sets out from the Faroe Islands and discovers Iceland (documented later in the Landnámabók) (approximate date).
Britain
Asia
- Emperor Saga of Japan is the first sovereign to drink tea (according to legend), imported from China by monks. The upper classes adopt this beverage for medicinal use.
- July 13 – Wu Yuanheng, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, is murdered by assassins of warlord Wu Yuanji, in Chang'an.
By topic
Religion
- Synod of Constantinople: A council led by patriarch Theodotus I, in the Hagia Sophia, reinstitutes iconoclasm.[3]
Births
- Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Muslim botanist and geographer (d. 896)
- Boniface VI, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 896)
- Dawud al-Zahiri, Muslim scholar (approximate date)
- Eberhard, duke of Friuli (approximate date)
- Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Irish theologian (approximate date)
- Leoluca, Sicilian abbot (approximate date)
- Methodius, Byzantine missionary and bishop (d. 885)
- Theodora, Byzantine empress (approximate date)
Deaths
- July 13 – Wu Yuanheng, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 758)
- Jābir ibn Hayyān (Geber), Muslim alchemist (approximate date)
- Laylā bint Ṭarīf, Arab woman warrior poet
- Mashallah ibn Athari, Jewish-Arab astrologer
- Muirgius mac Tommaltaig, king of Connacht (Ireland)
- Omar Tiberiades, Persian astrologer (approximate date)
- Sadnalegs, emperor of Tibet (approximate date)
References
- John V.A. Fine, Jr. (1991). The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century, p. 106. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3.
- Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, pp. 58–59.
- Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, pp. 513–514. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
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