828

This article is about the year 828. For other uses, see 828 (disambiguation).

Year 828 (DCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

828 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	828 DCCCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1581
Armenian calendar	277 ԹՎ ՄՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	5578
Balinese saka calendar	749–750
Bengali calendar	234–235
Berber calendar	1778
Buddhist calendar	1372
Burmese calendar	190
Byzantine calendar	6336–6337
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3525 or 3318     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3526 or 3319
Coptic calendar	544–545
Discordian calendar	1994
Ethiopian calendar	820–821
Hebrew calendar	4588–4589
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	884–885
- Shaka Samvat	749–750
- Kali Yuga	3928–3929
Holocene calendar	10828
Iranian calendar	206–207
Islamic calendar	212–213
Japanese calendar	Tenchō 5 (天長５年)
Javanese calendar	724–725
Julian calendar	828 DCCCXXVIII
Korean calendar	3161
Minguo calendar	1084 before ROC 民前1084年
Nanakshahi calendar	−640
Seleucid era	1139/1140 AG
Thai solar calendar	1370–1371
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 954 or 573 or −199     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 955 or 574 or −198

One of the oldest known dated Sanskrit manuscripts from South Asia, this specimen transmits a substantial portion of Pārameśvaratantra, a scripture of the Shaiva Siddhanta, that taught the worship of Shiva as Pārameśvara ("Supreme Lord"). A note in the manuscript states that it was copied in the year 252, which some scholars judge to be of the era established by the Nepalese king Amśuvaran, therefore corresponding to 828 CE. Cambridge University Library

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Siege of Syracuse: The Muslims under Asad ibn al-Furat defeat a Byzantine relief army sent from Palermo, and backed by a Venetian fleet led by Giustiniano Participazio. Al-Furat decides to break off the siege at Syracuse, as his forces suffer greatly from lack of food. Later he dies during an outbreak of an epidemic.
• Summer – Euphemius, Byzantine admiral, is murdered by emissaries from the Byzantine garrison at Castrogiovanni, which is besieged by the Muslims. Threatened by Byzantine reinforcements arriving from Constantinople, the survivors burn their ships and retreat overland westward to Mazara del Vallo.^[1][2]

Europe

• Al-Andalus: The city of Merida (modern Spain) rises twice in one year against the Umayyad Emirate.^[3]
• Kydonia, on the northwest coast of Crete, is destroyed by Saracen pirates (approximate date).
• Alcamo in Sicily is founded by the Muslim commander al-Kamuk (approximate date).

China

• In the capital of Chang'an, a powerful court eunuch orders 50 wrestlers to arrest 300 commoners over a land property dispute in Northwest Chang'an, whereupon a riot breaks out in the streets.

North America

• The occupation of Pueblo Bonito begins.

By topic

Religion

• Relics of Mark the Evangelist are stolen from Alexandria (controlled by the Abbasid Caliphate) by two Venetian merchants, and brought to Venice.^[4]
• At the instigation of Adalram, archbishop of Salzburg, the first Christian church in Central and Eastern Europe is built in Nitra, Pannonia.^[5]
• A Coptic revolt breaks out in Egypt (approximate date).

Births

• Ali al-Hadi, 10th Shia Imam
• Al-Dinawari, astronomer and grammarian (d. 889)
• Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king (or 830)
• Ibn Qutaybah, Muslim scholar (d. 889)
• Yantou Quanhuo, Chinese Chan master (d. 887)

Deaths

• Asad ibn al-Furat, Muslim jurist and theologian (b. 759)
• Euphemius, Byzantine admiral and usuper
• Ibn Hisham, Muslim historian (or 833)
• Idriss II, Muslim emir of Morocco (b. 791) ^[6]
• Nikephoros I, patriarch of Constantinople
• Talha ibn Tahir, Muslim governor