837

This page relates to the year 837 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Europe

  • the Aquitanian aristocrats complain with Louis the Piles about the tyranny exerted on them by Bernard de Septimanie.
  • Louis the Piles gives to his/her son Charles the Bald person a batch of ground between the Seine, Meuse and Frise.

  • Louis the Piles understands that the means of resisting the Viking S is to build forts at the neuralgic places and begins the execution of this plan.

  • Forwarding Norman in Plank. The Danes plunder the island of Walcheren, at the mouth of the Scheldt, but are put in escape by the forces of Louis the Piles (838).

  • Lothaire must give up the island of Walcheren (Plank), with the brothers Rorik and Haraldr Klakk (837 or 838, 841 according to other sources).

  • Beginning of the reign of Eòganán, king of the Pictes (fine in 839).
  • Victoire of Egbert Large the on the Danes combined to the Welsh with Hingston Down, in Cornouailles.
  • Arrived of the Norwegian chief Turgeis (Turgesius, Thorgeirr) in Ireland. Its fleets are announced in the Boyne and the Liffey and its troops unload in Ath Cliath and Dubh Linn (Black Pond), where they are cut off. It would have been helped by the king of Munster.

Art & culture

  • Battle of Brunanburh, told in a ballade of the Anglo-Saxon Chronic .
  • In China, die stamping on stone of the new treaties of the gun confucéen, allowing to stamp the text at will.

Births in 837

Death in 837

Map-bms: 837

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