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Year 853 (DCCCLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

8th century

9th century

830s

850s

850

853

853 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

853
DCCCLIII

Ab urbe condita

1606

Armenian calendar

302
ԹՎ ՅԲ

Assyrian calendar

5603

Balinese saka calendar

774–775

Bengali calendar

260

Berber calendar

1803

Buddhist calendar

1397

Burmese calendar

215

Byzantine calendar

6361–6362

Chinese calendar

壬申年 (Water Monkey)
3550 or 3343
— to —
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
3551 or 3344

Coptic calendar

569–570

Discordian calendar

2019

Ethiopian calendar

845–846

Hebrew calendar

4613–4614

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat

909–910

- Shaka Samvat

774–775

3953–3954

Holocene calendar

10853

Iranian calendar

231–232

Islamic calendar

238–239

Japanese calendar

Ninju3
(仁寿3年)

Javanese calendar

750–751

Julian calendar

853
DCCCLIII

Korean calendar

3186

Minguo calendar

1059 before ROC
民前1059年

Nanakshahi calendar

−615

1164/1165 AG

Thai solar calendar

1395–1396

Tibetan calendar

阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
979 or 598 or −174
— to —
阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
980 or 599 or −173

The Fraumünster Church (Switzerland)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

May 22 – A Byzantine fleet (85 ships and 5,000 men) sacks and destroys the port city of Damietta, located on the Nile DeltainEgypt. A large quantity of weapons and supplies intended for the Emirate of Crete are captured.^[1]

Europe

Danish Vikings attempt to subjugate the Curonians on the shoreline of the Baltic Sea, but they are repulsed. King Olof leads Swedish Vikings in retaliation, and attacks the towns of Seeburg and Apuolė (modern Courland).
Viking marauders in Gaul sail eastward from Nantes without opposition, and reach Tours. The monasteriesatSaint-Florent-le-Vieil and Marmoutier are ravaged.
King Charles the Bald bribes Boris I, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire, to form an alliance against his brother Louis the German, with Rastislav of Moravia.^[2]
Gauzbert, count of Maine, is killed during an ambush by citizens of Nantes, in revenge for the death of Lambert II.^[3]

Britain

King Burgred of Mercia appeals to Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, for help against the rebellious Welsh king Rhodri the Great. Æthelwulf agrees to send help, and Wales is subdued as far north as Anglesey.^[4]
Burgred (who inherited his crown last year)^{[clarification needed]} marries Æthelwulf's daughter Æthelswith, during a ceremony at the royal estate at Chippenham.^[4]

China

Tuan Ch'eng-Shih, Chinese author and scholar during the Tang Dynasty, publishes Miscellaneous Offerings from Yu-yang.

By topic

Religion

The Fraumünster Church in Zürich (modern Switzerland) is founded by Louis the German.

Births

Abu Jafar al-Tahawi, Muslim scholar (d. 933)
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Muslim theologian (d. 944)
Adelaide, queen of the West Frankish Kingdom (or850)
Ma Yin, Chinese warlord and king (approximate date)

Deaths

March 27 – Haymo, bishop of Halberstadt
Áilgenán mac Donngaile, king of Munster (Ireland)
Columba, Spanish nun and martyr
Ealhere, Kentish thegn
Gauzbert, count of Maine (approximate date)
Ishaq ibn Isma'il, emir of Tbilisi (Georgia)
Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, Muslim imam (or852)
Konstanti Kakhi, Georgian nobleman (b. 768)
Ono no Takamura, Japanese scholar (b. 802)
Theodrada, Frankish abbess, daughter of Charlemagne (or844)
Virasena, Indian mathematician (b. 792)

References

^ Bury 1912, pp. 292–293.

^ Goldberg 2006, p. 242.

^ Chronique de Saint-Maixent, p. 59. "Gaubert, comte du Maine tomba dans une embuscade des Nantais et fut tué".

^ ^a ^b Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 15. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.

Sources

Bury, John Bagnell (1912). A History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (A.D. 802–867). London: Macmillan and Company.
Goldberg, Eric J. (2006). Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817-876. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801438905.

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