AD 808
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Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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AD 808 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 808 DCCCVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 1561 |
Armenian calendar | 257 ԹՎ ՄԾԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 5558 |
Balinese saka calendar | 729–730 |
Bengali calendar | 215 |
Berber calendar | 1758 |
Buddhist calendar | 1352 |
Burmese calendar | 170 |
Byzantine calendar | 6316–6317 |
Chinese calendar | 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3505 or 3298 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3506 or 3299 |
Coptic calendar | 524–525 |
Discordian calendar | 1974 |
Ethiopian calendar | 800–801 |
Hebrew calendar | 4568–4569 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 864–865 |
- Shaka Samvat | 729–730 |
- Kali Yuga | 3908–3909 |
Holocene calendar | 10808 |
Iranian calendar | 186–187 |
Islamic calendar | 192–193 |
Japanese calendar | Daidō 3 (大同3年) |
Javanese calendar | 704–705 |
Julian calendar | 808 DCCCVIII |
Korean calendar | 3141 |
Minguo calendar | 1104 before ROC 民前1104年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −660 |
Seleucid era | 1119/1120 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1350–1351 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 934 or 553 or −219 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 935 or 554 or −218 |
Year 808 (DCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- King Godfred of the Danes forms an alliance with the Wiltzi and other Slav tribes against the pagan but pro-Frankish Abodrites.[1] Godfred builds earthworks (Danevirke) across the isthmus of Schleswig-Holstein. Separating Jutland from the northern extent of the Frankish Empire.
- In the Gharb al-Andalus (present day Portugal), Hazim ibn Wahb leads a rebellion against the Emir of Córdoba.[2]
Arabian Empire
- Caliph Harun al-Rashid moves his residence north from Baghdad to Samarra and becomes the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Births
- September 27 - Emperor Ninmyō of Japan (d. 850)
- probable
- Gottschalk of Orbais, German theologian (d. c.867)
- Walafrid Strabo, Swabian monk and theological writer
Deaths
- October/November – Al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, Abbasid governor (b. 766)
- October 12 – Du Huangshang, Tang Dynasty official (b. c.728)
- probable
- Eanbald II, Archbishop of York
- Elipando, Spanish archbishop and theologian
- Layman Pang, lay Buddhist (b. 740)