| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 807 DCCCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1560 |
| Armenian calendar | 256 ԹՎ ՄԾԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5557 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 728–729 |
| Bengali calendar | 214 |
| Berber calendar | 1757 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1351 |
| Burmese calendar | 169 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6315–6316 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3503 or 3443 — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3504 or 3444 |
| 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 | 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 933 or 552 or −220 — to — 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 934 or 553 or −219 |
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Coin of king Cuthred of Kent (798–807)
Year 807 (DCCCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
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]
- 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.
- 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.
Science
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
- ^ Bosworth 1989, p. 263
- ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 145, 408 (Note 190).
- ^ Mango & Scott 1997, p. 662.
- ^ Treadgold 1988, p. 148.
- ^ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
Sources
- Bosworth, C. E., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXX: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium. The Caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–193. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-88706-564-3.
- Mango, Cyril; Scott, Roger (1997). The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284–813. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822568-7.
- Treadgold, Warren T. (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1462-2.