854
Year 854 (DCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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| Gregorian calendar | 854 DCCCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1607 |
| Armenian calendar | 303 ԹՎ ՅԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5604 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 775–776 |
| Bengali calendar | 261 |
| Berber calendar | 1804 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1398 |
| Burmese calendar | 216 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6362–6363 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3550 or 3490 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3551 or 3491 |
| Coptic calendar | 570–571 |
| Discordian calendar | 2020 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 846–847 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4614–4615 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 910–911 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 775–776 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3954–3955 |
| Holocene calendar | 10854 |
| Iranian calendar | 232–233 |
| Islamic calendar | 239–240 |
| Japanese calendar | Ninju 4 / Saikō 1 (斉衡元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 751–752 |
| Julian calendar | 854 DCCCLIV |
| Korean calendar | 3187 |
| Minguo calendar | 1058 before ROC 民前1058年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −614 |
| Seleucid era | 1165/1166 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1396–1397 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 980 or 599 or −173 — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 981 or 600 or −172 |
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Events
By place
Europe
- Emperor Lothair I meets his (half) brothers (Louis the German and Charles the Bald) in Attigny, Ardennes for the third time, to continue the system of "con-fraternal government".
- The Viking chieftains Rorik and Godfrid Haraldsson return to Denmark, to gain power after the death of King Horik I. During a civil war, they are forced to go back to Friesland.[1]
- The German city of Ulm is first mentioned in a document by Louis the German. [2]
Britain
- King Æthelwulf of Wessex sends his two youngest sons, Alfred and Æthelred, on a pilgrimage to Rome.[3]
- King Æthelweard of East Anglia dies, and is succeeded by his 14-year-old son Edmund ("the Martyr").[4]
- King Cyngen of Powys makes the first pilgrimage to Rome of a Welsh ruler.
- Viking chieftain Ubba winters in Milford Haven (Wales) with 23 ships.[5]
By topic
Births
- Al-Mu'tadid, Muslim caliph (or 861)
- Cadell ap Rhodri, king of Seisyllwg (d. 909)
- Cui Yin, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 904)
- Muhammad ibn Zakariyā al-Rāzī, Persian philosopher (d. 925)
- Theobald the Elder, Frankish nobleman (d. 942)
Deaths
- Abu Thawr, Muslim scholar (b. 764)
- Æthelweard, king of East Anglia
- Eanbert, bishop of Lindisfarne
- Horik I, Viking king of Denmark
- Luidger, bishop of Utrecht (approximate date)
- Osburh, queen of Wessex (approximate date)
- Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 855)
- Túathal mac Máele-Brigte, king of Leinster
- Wang Yuankui, Chinese general (b. 812)
- Wigmund, archbishop of York
References
- Norsemen in the Low Countries: Extracts from the Annales Bertiniani, 855 entry Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- Zeit.de: Das Alter der Städte
- ASC 854 - English translation at Project Gutenberg
- Kirby, The Earliest English Kings, p. 161.
- Milford Haven Town Council website History, Chronology of Events Archived March 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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