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== Events == <onlyinclude> === By place === ==== Europe ==== * [[Danes|Danish]] [[Vikings]] land in the [[Marches of Neustria|Breton March]] (western part of [[Gaul]]). Duke [[Nominoe]] of [[Brittany]] fails to withstand them in battle, but succeeds in buying them off with gifts and persuading them to leave (approximate date). * [[Viking Age]]: The [[Vikings]] plunder the [[Viking raids into the Rhineland|Lower Rhine]], as part of their attacks on the Empire of [[Francia]]. * The [[Saracens]], under the [[Berbers|Berber]] leader [[Kalfun]], capture the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] city of [[Bari]] ([[Southern Italy]]). He becomes the first ruler of the [[Emirate of Bari]], and expands his influence on the [[Italian mainland]] with raids.<ref>Kreutz, p. 38.</ref> ==== Abbasid Caliphate ==== * [[August 10]] – Caliph [[Al-Wathiq]] dies of [[dropsy]] after a five-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother [[al-Mutawakkil]]. [[File:Deaths of Al-Wathiq and Muhammad B. Baiis Jalis (recto), Death of Anbakh (verso), Folio from a Tarikh-I Alfi Manuscript LACMA M.78.9.4 (1 of 2).jpg|thumb|200px|Death of [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] caliph [[Al-Wathiq]], He died as the result of [[dropsy]] {{sfn|Kennedy|2006|p=232}} on 10 August 847. He was succeeded by his brother al-Mutawakkil.]] === By topic === ==== Natural events ==== * [[November 24]] – [[847 Damascus earthquake]] ==== Religion ==== * [[January 24]] – [[Pope Sergius II]] dies of [[gout]] after a 3-year reign. He is succeeded by [[Pope Leo IV|Leo IV]], as the 103rd [[pope]] of [[Rome]]. * [[April 21]]– [[Rabanus Maurus]], a [[Francia|Frankish]] [[Order of Saint Benedict|Benedictine]] monk, becomes [[Elector of Mainz|archbishop]] of [[Mainz]] after the death of [[Odgar]]. </onlyinclude>
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