847
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| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 810s 820s 830s – 840s – 850s 860s 870s |
| Years: | 844 845 846 – 847 – 848 849 850 |
| 847 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 847 DCCCXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1600 |
| Armenian calendar | 296 ԹՎ ՄՂԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5597 |
| Bengali calendar | 254 |
| Berber calendar | 1797 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1391 |
| Burmese calendar | 209 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6355–6356 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 3543 or 3483 — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 3544 or 3484 |
| Coptic calendar | 563–564 |
| Discordian calendar | 2013 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 839–840 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4607–4608 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 903–904 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 769–770 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3948–3949 |
| Holocene calendar | 10847 |
| Iranian calendar | 225–226 |
| Islamic calendar | 232–233 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōwa 14 (承和１４年) |
| Julian calendar | 847 DCCCXLVII |
| Korean calendar | 3180 |
| Minguo calendar | 1065 before ROC 民前1065年 |
| Seleucid era | 1158/1159 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1389–1390 |
Year 847 (DCCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Bari is captured by the Saracens.
- According to the Annales Bertiniani, Nominoe, king of Brittany, makes war on the Vikings.
By topic
Religion
- January – Pope Leo IV succeeds Pope Sergius II as the 103rd pope.
- Rabanus Maurus becomes Archbishop of Mainz.
Births
- Alfred the Great (b. c. 847–849) (d. 899)
- Wang Jian
Deaths
- January 24 – Pope Sergius II
- Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, king of Munster
- al-Wathiq, Abbasid caliph (b. c. 842–847)
