844

844 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	844; DCCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	1597
Armenian calendar	293; ԹՎ ՄՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	5594
Balinese saka calendar	765–766
Bengali calendar	251
Berber calendar	1794
Buddhist calendar	1388
Burmese calendar	206
Byzantine calendar	6352–6353
Chinese calendar	癸みずのと亥い年とし (Water Pig); 3541 or 3334; — to —; 甲子きのえね年ねん (Wood Rat); 3542 or 3335
Coptic calendar	560–561
Discordian calendar	2010
Ethiopian calendar	836–837
Hebrew calendar	4604–4605
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	900–901
- Shaka Samvat	765–766
- Kali Yuga	3944–3945
Holocene calendar	10844
Iranian calendar	222–223
Islamic calendar	229–230
Japanese calendar	Jōwa 11; (承うけたまわ和わ１１年ねん)
Javanese calendar	741–742
Julian calendar	844; DCCCXLIV
Korean calendar	3177
Minguo calendar	1068 before ROC; 民みん前まえ1068年ねん
Nanakshahi calendar	−624
Seleucid era	1155/1156 AG
Thai solar calendar	1386–1387
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪いのしし年ねん; (female Water-Pig); 970 or 589 or −183; — to —; 阳木鼠ねずみ年ねん; (male Wood-Rat); 971 or 590 or −182

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century; 9th century ; 10th century;
Decades:	820s; 830s; 840s ; 850s; 860s;
Years:	841; 842; 843; 844 ; 845; 846; 847;

Year 844 (DCCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Spring – Battle of Mauropotamos: A Byzantine expedition under Theoktistos is sent to Anatolia (modern Turkey), against the Muslim Arabs of the Abbasid Caliphate, who have raided the Byzantine themes of Cappadocia, Anatolikon, Boukellarion, and Opsikion. The Byzantines are defeated, and many of the officers defect to the Arabs.^[1]

Viking raiders ascend the River Garonne as far as the city of Toulouse, and pillage the lands of Septimania. Part of the marauding Vikings invades Galicia (Northern Spain), where some perish in a storm at sea. After being defeated in Corunna, the Scandinavian raiders sack the Umayyad cities of Seville (see below), Niebla, Beja, and Lisbon.^[2]
Summer – King Charles the Bald struggles against the repeated rebellions in Aquitaine, and against the Bretons in West Francia. He besieges Bernard I at the Battle of Toulouse, while Duke Nominoe raids into Maine, and plunders other Frankish territory.^[3]
June 15 – Louis II, eldest son of Emperor Lothair I, is crowned king at Rome by Pope Sergius II, and becomes co-ruler of Middle Francia, and over Lombardy, Friuli, and Tuscany in Italy.
September 25–November 11 or 17 – Viking raid on Seville (844): Vikings arrive in Seville by the Guadalquivir, taking the city on October 1 or 3 and pillaging it; but are expelled by forces of the Emirate of Córdoba.

King Æthelred II of Northumbria is expelled from his kingdom by Rædwulf, who takes the throne. Rædwulf is later killed in battle against the Vikings, along with many of his noblemen. Æthelred returns and claims his right to rule.
King Merfyn Frych dies after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Rhodri Mawr ("the Great"), who thus becomes ruler of Gwynedd (Wales).

January 25 – Pope Gregory IV dies after a 16-year reign, in which he has supported the Frankish policy of late emperor Louis the Pious, and established the observance of All Saints' Day. He is succeeded by Sergius II, as the 102nd pope of Rome. Sergius imprisons the antipope John VIII, and is elected by popular acclamation.

^ Vasiliev 1935, pp. 399–404.
^ Rucquoi, Adeline (1993). Histoire médiévale de la Péninsule ibérique. Paris: Seuil. p. 85. ISBN 2-02-012935-3.
^ AF a. 844: Karolus Aquitaniam, quasi ad partem regni sui iure pertinentem, affectans ... ("Charles wanted Aquitaine, which belonged by right to a part of his kingdom").

Vasiliev, Alexander A. (1935). Byzance et les Arabes, Tome I: La dynastie d'Amorium (820–867). Corpus Bruxellense Historiae Byzantinae (in French). French ed.: Henri Grégoire, Marius Canard. Brussels: Éditions de l'Institut de philologie et d'histoire orientales. OCLC 181731396.