This article is about the year 807. For the car, see Peugeot 807. For the vacuum tube, see 807 (vacuum tube).
807 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 807
DCCCVII
Ab urbe condita 1560
Armenian calendar 256
ԹՎ ՄԾԶ
Assyrian calendar 5557
Balinese saka calendar 728–729
Bengali calendar 213–214
Berber calendar 1757
Buddhist calendar 1351
Burmese calendar 169
Byzantine calendar 6315–6316
Chinese calendar 丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3504 or 3297
    — to —
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3505 or 3298
Coptic calendar 523–524
Discordian calendar 1973
Ethiopian calendar 799–800
Hebrew calendar 4567–4568
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 863–864
 - Shaka Samvat 728–729
 - Kali Yuga 3907–3908
Holocene calendar 10807
Iranian calendar 185–186
Islamic calendar 191–192
Japanese calendar Daidō 2
(大同２年)
Javanese calendar 703–704
Julian calendar 807
DCCCVII
Korean calendar 3140
Minguo calendar 1105 before ROC
民前1105年
Nanakshahi calendar −661
Seleucid era 1118/1119 AG
Thai solar calendar 1349–1350
Tibetan calendar མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dog)
933 or 552 or −220
    — to —
མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Boar)
934 or 553 or −219
Dirham of Harun al-Rashid 192 AH/807 CE, Baghdad

Year 807 (DCCCVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 807th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 807th year of the 1st millennium, the 7th year of the 9th century, and the 8th year of the 800s decade.

Events

By place

Abbasid Empire and Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Nikephoros I is forced to sue for peace, on condition of paying 50,000 nomismata to Caliph Harun al-Rashid, and agrees to a yearly tribute. Nikephoros promises not to rebuild the dismantled forts. Rashid recalls his forces from various sieges, and evacuates Byzantine territory.[1][2][3]
Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) the Commander-in-chief and caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. He was the Arab leader of the Caliphate–Byzantine wars in the late 8th and early 9th century.
  • An Abbasid fleet under Humayd ibn Ma'yuf al-Hajuri raids the Peloponnese, Rhodes and Myra.[4]

Europe

  • Al-Andalus (modern Spain): An uprising occurs in the city of Mérida against the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba.[5]
  • Siege of Patras: This marks the end of independent rule by the South Slavs in the Peloponnese (or 805).

Britain

  • The Vikings land on the Cornish coast, and form an alliance with the Cornish to fight against Wessex.
Coin of king Cuthred of Kent (798–807)
  • King Cuthred of Kent dies. His brother, King Coenwulf of Mercia, takes control over Kent himself.

Asia

  • Dappula II becomes king of Sri Lanka, and makes Anuradhapura the capital city.
  • Li Jifu is appointed chancellor, during the reign of Emperor Xian Zong in China.

By topic

Religion

  • The Temple of Motoyama-ji in Mitoyo (Japan), of the Kōyasan Shingon-shū sect, is constructed by the orders of Emperor Heizei.
  • The Jame' Atiq Mosque of Qazvin is constructed in Qazvin (modern Iran), by the orders of Harun al-Rashid.
  • The Book of Armagh is written by the Irish illuminator Ferdomnach, a scribe at the School of Armagh.


Births

  • Dongshan Liangjie, Chinese Buddhist teacher (d. 869)

Deaths

  • October 13 – Simpert, bishop of Augsburg
  • Conall mac Taidg, king of the Picts (approximate date)
  • Cuthred, king of Kent
  • Robert II, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
  • Stephen the Hymnographer, Syrian monk (b. 725)
  • Widukind, duke of Saxony (approximate date)

References

  1. ^ Bosworth 1989, p. 263
  2. ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 145, 408 (Note 190).
  3. ^ Mango & Scott 1997, p. 662.
  4. ^ Treadgold 1988, p. 148.
  5. ^ Rucquoi 1993, p. 85.

Sources

  • Bosworth, C. E., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXX: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Mūsā al-Hādī and Hārūn al-Rashīd, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–192. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-564-4.
  • Mango, Cyril; Scott, Roger (1997). The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284–813. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822568-7.
  • Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique (in French). Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
  • Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.