834

Year 834 (DCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

834 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	834 DCCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1587
Armenian calendar	283 ԹՎ ՄՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	5584
Balinese saka calendar	755–756
Bengali calendar	240–241
Berber calendar	1784
Buddhist calendar	1378
Burmese calendar	196
Byzantine calendar	6342–6343
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3531 or 3324     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3532 or 3325
Coptic calendar	550–551
Discordian calendar	2000
Ethiopian calendar	826–827
Hebrew calendar	4594–4595
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	890–891
- Shaka Samvat	755–756
- Kali Yuga	3934–3935
Holocene calendar	10834
Iranian calendar	212–213
Islamic calendar	218–219
Japanese calendar	Tenchō 11 / Jōwa 1 (承和元年)
Javanese calendar	730–731
Julian calendar	834 DCCCXXXIV
Korean calendar	3167
Minguo calendar	1078 before ROC 民前1078年
Nanakshahi calendar	−634
Seleucid era	1145/1146 AG
Thai solar calendar	1376–1377
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 960 or 579 or −193     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 961 or 580 or −192

The Oseberg Ship (Viking Ship Museum)

Events

By place

Europe

• March 1 – Emperor Louis the Pious is restored^[1] as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire. After his re-accession to the throne, his eldest son Lothair I flees to Burgundy.
• Danish Vikings raid the trading settlement of Dorestad (present-day Wijk bij Duurstede), located in the southeast of the province of Utrecht (modern Netherlands).
• Summer – The Viking ship of Oseberg near Tønsberg (modern Norway) is buried in a mound, during the Viking Age (approximate date).
• The first mention is made of the Jona River ('the cold one') in Switzerland (approximate date).

Britain

• King Óengus II dies after a 14-year reign. He is succeeded by his nephew Drest IX, as ruler of the Picts.

By topic

Religion

• July 20 – Ansegisus, Frankish abbot and advisor of former emperor Charlemagne, dies at Fontenelle Abbey in Normandy (or 833).

Births

• Aud the Deep-Minded, Icelandic queen
• Euthymius I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 917)
• Lady Shuiqiu, wife of Qian Kuan (d. 901)
• Mo Xuanqing, Chinese scholar
• Pi Rixiu, Chinese poet (approximate date)
• Robert, Frankish nobleman (d. 866)
• Tan Quanbo, Chinese warlord (d. 918)

Deaths

• July 20 or 833 – Ansegisus, Frankish abbot
• Adelchis I, duke of Spoleto (Italy)
• Cellach mac Brain, king of Leinster (Ireland)
• Fridugisus, Anglo-Saxon abbot (approximate date)
• Gaucelm, Frankish nobleman
• Nasr ibn 'Abdallah, Muslim governor
• Odo I, Frankish nobleman
• Óengus II, king of the Picts
• Robert III, Frankish nobleman (b. 800)
• Wang Chengyuan, Chinese general (b. 801)
• Wang Tingcou, general of the Tang dynasty
• William, Frankish nobleman