807

This article is about the year 807. For the car, see Peugeot 807. For the vacuum tube, see 807 (vacuum tube).

Year 807 (DCCCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 807th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 807th year of the 1st millennium, the 7th year of the 9th century, and the 8th year of the 800s decade.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century 9th century 10th century
Decades:	780s 790s 800s 810s 820s
Years:	804 805 806 807 808 809 810

807 in various calendars

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) 3504 or 3297     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3505 or 3298
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

Dirham of Harun al-Rashid 192 AH/807 CE, Baghdad

Events

By place

Abbasid Empire and 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.

Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809) the Commander-in-chief and caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. He was the Arab leader of the Caliphate–Byzantine wars in the late 8th and early 9th century.

• An Abbasid fleet under Humayd ibn Ma'yuf al-Hajuri raids the Peloponnese, Rhodes and Myra.

Europe

• Al-Andalus (modern Spain): An uprising occurs in the city of Mérida against the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba.
• 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.

Coin of king Cuthred of Kent (798–807)

• 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

• The first record of sun spots appears in Europe.

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

Sources

• Bosworth, C. E., ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXX: The ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Mūsā al-Hādī and Hārūn al-Rashīd, A.D. 785–809/A.H. 169–192. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-564-4.
• Mango, Cyril; Scott, Roger (1997). The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor. Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284–813. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-822568-7.
• Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique (in French). Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
• Treadgold, Warren (1988). The Byzantine Revival, 780–842. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.