Millennium: 1st millennium Centuries: 8th century – 9th century – 10th century Decades: 810s  820s  830s  – 840s –  850s  860s  870s Years: 840 841 842 – 843 – 844 845 846 843 by topic v • d • e Politics State leaders – Sovereign states Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishment and disestablishment categories Establishments – Disestablishments 843 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 843 DCCCXLIII Ab urbe condita 1596 Armenian calendar 292 ԹՎ ՄՂԲ Bahá'í calendar -1001 – -1000 Berber calendar 1793 Buddhist calendar 1387 Burmese calendar 205 Byzantine calendar 6351 – 6352 Chinese calendar 壬戌年十一月廿七日 (3479/3539-11-27) — to — 癸亥年十二月初七日 (3480/3540-12-7) Coptic calendar 559 – 560 Ethiopian calendar 835 – 836 Hebrew calendar 4603 – 4604 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 898 – 899  - Shaka Samvat 765 – 766  - Kali Yuga 3944 – 3945 Holocene calendar 10843 Iranian calendar 221 – 222 Islamic calendar 228 – 229 Japanese calendar Korean calendar 3176 Thai solar calendar 1386 v • d • e

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[edit] Europe

• The Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian Empire between the 3 sons of Louis the Pious (Charles the Bald, Lothar and Louis the German).
• Kenneth I (Cináed mac Ailpín), King of the Scots, also becomes King of the Picts, thus becoming the first monarch of the new nation of Scotland. The Alpin dynasty of Scottish kings begins to reign.
• the Battle of Messac is won by Erispoe, son of Nominoe, Count of Vannes, against Renaud d'Herbauges who is prefet of the Marks of Brittany. Renaud d'Herbauges had tried an attack while Nominoe was ill. This battle marks the beginning of the hostilities between Charles the Bald and Nominoe.

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• In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang'an, a large fire consumes 4,000 homes, warehouses, and other buildings in the East Market, yet the rest of the city is at a safe distance from the blaze (which is largely quarantined in East Central Chang'an thanks to the large width of roads in Chang'an that produce fire breaks).

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[edit] Religion

• The iconoclastic controversies end in Byzantium with the widow of Emperor Theophilus, Theodora II, acting as regent for her son, the future Michael III. Theodora II restored the veneration of icons in the Eastern Church, thus ending Iconoclasm.

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• Jia Dao, Chinese poet and Buddhist monk (b. 779)