843

This page relates to the year 843 Calendrier Julien.

Events

March 4th: The Patriarche of Constantinople Jean Morocharzianos is deposited and replaced by the sicilian monk Methodios.
March 11th: The empress Théodora convenes a council which restores the worship of the images in the Byzantine Empire and persecutes the heretics. The subordination of the Church to the emperor ceases.

the payment of 843 is actually a compromise: the council specifies that the icons are not adored for themselves but that it is the respect due to the saint character that they represent which appears by their intermediary. The orthodoxe religion found its balance.

In Minor Asia, Karbeas creates a state enemy Paulicien of Byzance with Tefrik for capital.

February 2nd: Dhuoda, duchess of Septimanie, wife of Bernard de Septimanie, completes the drafting of the Manuel for my son , first treaty of education known, intended for his/her Guillaume oldest son.
May 25th: Battle of Blain between the Francs and the Breton ones.
June 24th: The Viking S, perhaps with the call of the count Lambert, vassal revolted Charles the Bald person, take Nantes without difficulty the June 24th, one day of fair. Part of the population, whose bishop Saint-Gohard, is massacred in the cathedral. The Norman ones then devastate the area in the south of the Loire (country of Retz) then take refuge in an island (Yeu or Noirmoutier) where they winter for the first time.

8 or August 11th: The Traité of Verdun devotes the division of the empire of Charlemagne between its three grandsons, the three wire of Louis the Piles: Charles the Bald person receives the West, Louis Germanic the Is, and Lothaire, to which falls the imperial title, the center.

Three principles guided this division: equality of the three shares, unit of each one and Aquitanian entirety of the three principalities of , Bavaria and Italy. The three batches are supplemented so that each king has an equal number of tax departments. The countries in the east of the the Rhine are allotted to Louis, those in the west of the the Scheldt, the Meuse, the the Saone and the the Rhone in Charles the Bald person. Lothaire acquires the Empire and a long band of territory of the Frise to the Provence and until Spolète. The three kingdoms, at the complicated borders, do not have the linguistic unit nor economic, in particular most fragile, the Lotharingie. Until the death of Lothaire in 855, the three brothers try to live in good agreement (mode of fraternity).

November: Accords of Coulaines on the honor . Charles II the Bald person must promise with the Church not to strip it its goods and with large not to remove their loads to them.

Of risings occurs. The nephew of Charles the Bald person, Pip II, claims the Aquitaine, heritage of Pépin I {{er}}.
Demolished the Norman ones with the battle of Chalaux close to Lormes, in Nevers-native.
Formation of the Duchy of Saxony.
battles of Messac: victory of Erispoë, wire of Nominoë, against Renaud, count d' Herbauge and prefect of the Walk of Brittany, which tried its own initiative an attack against sick Nominoë. This battle marks the release of the hostility between Charles the Bald person and Nominoë.

the king Kenneth Ier of Scotland unifies the country of the Scots and the Pictes in Scotland.
the king of Dublin Turgeis (Thorgis), being pressed on an Irish clan apostate, takes the Christian sanctuaries of Armagh and Clonmacnoise. In the name of paganism, he claims with supremacy on all the territory of the island.
the Irishmen revolt against Thorgis and drive out the Norwegian Viking S except for some coastal stations.

Mosaic of the Chorus of Holy-Sophie (fine in 855).
Intense artistic activity with the palate of Charles the Bald person (fine in 877).
the arabo-Islamic Philosophe Al-Kindi compares swords coming from 25 countries.
Voyages of the Arab geographer Ibn Kurdadhbah.

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