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Calendar year
Calendar year
King
Æthelwulf of Wessex (839–858)
Year 839 (
DCCCXXXIX ) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
Prince
Sicard of Benevento is assassinated by a conspiracy among the
nobility . He is succeeded by
Radelchis I , chief army officer and
treasurer of Sicard, who proclaims himself ruler of
Benevento . He imprisons
Siconulf , heir and brother of Sicard, in
Taranto . But
Amalfitan merchants, led by
Landulf I , the
gastald of
Capua , and with the support of
Guaifer , rescue him from prison. Siconulf is proclaimed prince of
Salerno , and a
civil war erupts, which splits the Lombard
principality in
Southern Italy .
[1]
Third Civil War : King
Louis the German , grandson of
Charlemagne , invades
Swabia . His nephew,
Pepin II of Aquitaine , and his
Gascon subjects, conquer territory all the way to the
Loire .
May 20 — Thirteen months before his death,
Louis the Pious , successor to his father
Charlemagne , consents to the division of Charlemagne's empire among his sons in a declaration at
Worms . Upon Louis I's death in 840,
Lothair (age 45) is devised
Middle Francia that includes Switzerland and northern Italy;
Louis the German (Louis II), age 36, receives
Eastern Francia that includes much of
Germany ; and
Charles the Bald (17) gets
West Francia that incorporates most of
France .
The
Hungarians (also known as Magyars ) who until then have lived east of the
Carpathians , raid the
Lower Danube at the request of the
Bulgarian Empire against the
Byzantine insurgents.
[2]
Approximate date – Danish
Vikings return to ravage the
Frisian coast (sacking
Dorestad for the second time).
Britain
King
Egbert of Wessex dies after a 37-year reign, and is succeeded by his son
Æthelwulf ("Noble Wolf") as ruler of
Wessex . Æthelwulf's eldest son,
Æthelstan , is made sub-king of
Kent ,
Essex ,
Surrey and
Sussex , under his father.
Battle of 839 :
Eóganan mac Óengusa , King of the Picts, his brother Bran,
Áed mac Boanta ,
King of Dál Riata , "and others almost innumerable" are killed in a battle fought by the men of
Fortriu in Scotland against
Vikings .
[4]
Alpín mac Echdach (Alpín II) apparently succeeds Áed.
By topic
Religion
Births
Deaths
Áed mac Boanta , king of
Dál Riata
Aznar I , king of
Aragon
Cathal mac Muirgiussa , king of
Connacht
Chengguan , Chinese
Buddhist monk (b.
738 )
Cummascach mac Congalaig , king of
Brega
Egbert , king of
Wessex
Eóganan mac Óengusa , king of the
Picts
Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi , Muslim prince (b.
779 )
Muhammad at-Taqi , Muslim ninth
Ismā'īlī imam (or
840 )
Muiredach mac Eochada , king of
Ulaid
Pei Du , chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b.
765 )
Rorgon I , count of
Maine (or
840 )
Sicard , prince of
Benevento
Vache , prince of
Kakheti
Wiglaf , king of
Mercia
References
^ Kreutz, Barbara M (1991). Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, p. 23 (University of Pennsylvania, Press: Philadelphia).
^ Bóna, István (2000). The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries . Budapest: Historia - MTA Történettudományi Intézete, p. 11.
ISBN
963-8312-67-X .
^
Annals of Ulster .
Sources