Explore 11 historical events from 830–839.
Kūkai , born Saeki no Mao posthumously called Kōbō Daishi , was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled …
Kūkai, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism (born 774)
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī, known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Abbasid historian and scholar. He grew up in Basra, in modern-day Iraq and…
Ibn Hisham, Egyptian Muslim historian
Charles the Fat was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, and a gr…
Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (died 888)
Theodora, sometimes called Theodora the Armenian or Theodora the Blessed, was Byzantine empress as the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilos from 830 to 842. Following Theophilos's …
Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia
Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur was the best known of the Abbasid princesses, and the wife and double cousin of Harun al-Rashid. She is particularly remembered for the series of…
Zubaidah bint Ja`far, Abbasid Princess
The Pactum Sicardi was a treaty signed on 4 July 836 between the Greek Duchy of Naples, including its satellite city-states of Sorrento and Amalfi, represented by Bishop John IV an…
Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
The Arab–Byzantine wars or Muslim–Byzantine wars were a series of wars from the 7th to 11th centuries between the successive Islamic caliphates and the Byzantine Empire. Following …
Arab–Byzantine wars: The forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantine troops led by Emperor Theophilos at the…
The Battle of Anzen or Dazimon was fought on 22 July 838 at Anzen or Dazimon between the Byzantine Empire and the forces of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasids had launched a massi…
Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
Saint Ansegisus was a monastic reformer of the Franks.
Ansegisus, Frankish abbot and saint
Abū al-ʿAbbās Abd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Maʾmūn, better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun, was the seventh Abbasid caliph, who reigned from 813 until his death in 833. His leadership …
Al-Ma'mun, Iraqi caliph (born 786)
Charles the Fat was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, and a gr…
Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (died 888)
The Battle of Anzen or Dazimon was fought on 22 July 838 at Anzen or Dazimon between the Byzantine Empire and the forces of the Abbasid Caliphate. The Abbasids had launched a massi…
Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh, was the eighth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 833 until his death in 842. When al-Ma'mun d…
The Arabs under Caliph al-Mu'tasim storm and sack the city of Amorium, killing half the population and enslaving the…
The Arab–Byzantine wars or Muslim–Byzantine wars were a series of wars from the 7th to 11th centuries between the successive Islamic caliphates and the Byzantine Empire. Following …
Arab–Byzantine wars: The forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated Byzantine troops led by Emperor Theophilos at the…
The Pactum Sicardi was a treaty signed on 4 July 836 between the Greek Duchy of Naples, including its satellite city-states of Sorrento and Amalfi, represented by Bishop John IV an…
Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed.
Kūkai , born Saeki no Mao posthumously called Kōbō Daishi , was a Japanese Buddhist monk, calligrapher, and poet who founded the esoteric Shingon school of Buddhism. He travelled …
Kūkai, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism (born 774)
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī, known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Abbasid historian and scholar. He grew up in Basra, in modern-day Iraq and…
Ibn Hisham, Egyptian Muslim historian
Saint Ansegisus was a monastic reformer of the Franks.
Ansegisus, Frankish abbot and saint
Abū al-ʿAbbās Abd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Maʾmūn, better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun, was the seventh Abbasid caliph, who reigned from 813 until his death in 833. His leadership …
Al-Ma'mun, Iraqi caliph (born 786)
Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur was the best known of the Abbasid princesses, and the wife and double cousin of Harun al-Rashid. She is particularly remembered for the series of…
Zubaidah bint Ja`far, Abbasid Princess
Theodora, sometimes called Theodora the Armenian or Theodora the Blessed, was Byzantine empress as the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilos from 830 to 842. Following Theophilos's …
Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia