849

Year 849 (DCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

849 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	849 DCCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	1602
Armenian calendar	298 ԹՎ ՄՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	5599
Balinese saka calendar	770–771
Bengali calendar	255–256
Berber calendar	1799
Buddhist calendar	1393
Burmese calendar	211
Byzantine calendar	6357–6358
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 3546 or 3339     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3547 or 3340
Coptic calendar	565–566
Discordian calendar	2015
Ethiopian calendar	841–842
Hebrew calendar	4609–4610
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	905–906
- Shaka Samvat	770–771
- Kali Yuga	3949–3950
Holocene calendar	10849
Iranian calendar	227–228
Islamic calendar	234–235
Japanese calendar	Kashō 2 (嘉祥２年)
Javanese calendar	746–747
Julian calendar	849 DCCCXLIX
Korean calendar	3182
Minguo calendar	1063 before ROC 民前1063年
Nanakshahi calendar	−619
Seleucid era	1160/1161 AG
Thai solar calendar	1391–1392
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 975 or 594 or −178     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 976 or 595 or −177

The Battle of Ostia at the Vatican Museum

Events

By place

Europe

• Summer – Battle of Ostia: A Saracen Arab fleet from Sardinia sets sail towards Rome. In response, Pope Leo IV forms a coalition of maritime Italian cities, including Naples, Amalfi and Gaeta, led by Admiral Caesar — which is assembled off the re-fortified port of Ostia — and repels the Saracen marauders. Their navy is scattered, resulting in many sunken vessels. Rome is saved from plunder and the expansion of the Aghlabids.^[1]
• Frankish forces under King Charles the Bald invade southern France, and conquer the territory of Toulouse. He appoints Fredelo as count (comté) of Toulouse, who founds the Rouergue dynasty. Aquitaine is submitted to the West Frankish Kingdom.

Abbasid Caliphate

• The Armenian prince Bagrat II begins a rebellion against Caliph Al-Mutawakkil, of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Asia

• In the Chinese capital city of Chang'an, an imperial prince is impeached during the Tang Dynasty from his position by officials at court, for erecting a building that obstructs a street in the northwesternmost ward in South Central Chang'an.
• King Pyinbya of Burma founds the city of Bagan, located in the Mandalay Region, and fortifies it with walls.

Births

• May – Isma'il ibn Ahmad, Muslim emir (d. 907)
• Alfred the Great, king of Wessex (d. 899)
• Eric Anundsson, king of Sweden (d. 882)

Deaths

• January 15 – Theophylact, Byzantine co-emperor (b. c.793)
• Ali ibn Muhammad, Idrisid emir of Morocco^[2]
• c. February – Harthamah ibn al-Nadr al-Jabali, Muslim governor
• June – Ali ibn al-Madini, Muslim scholar (b. 778)
• c. June? – Ragenar, bishop of Amiens
• August 18 – Walafrid Strabo, Frankish theological writer
• Conaing mac Flainn, king of Brega (Ireland)
• Connagan, bishop of Clonfert (Ireland)
• Guntbold, archbishop of Rouen
• Itakh (Ītākh al-Khazarī), Muslim general
• Zhang Zhongwu, Chinese general