Emperor Wenzong died at the Taihe Hall; eunuchs Qiu Shiliang and Yu Hongzhi enthroned the Prince of Ying (Wuzong). (New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals 新唐書 卷008 穆宗~宣宗 開成5年1月)
In the ninth month, the Dazaifu reported that the sacred pond of the deity Takeiwatatsu in Aso District, Higo Province, had begun to dry up. (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 97번째 단락))
In the ninth month, the court set the ranks of the 391 returning envoys, from the judges down to the sailors. (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 99번째 단락))
In the fifth month, the retired emperor Junna died at the Junna-in; the Three Barriers of Ōmi, Ise and Mino were ordered to be strictly guarded. (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 45번째 단락))
In the sixth month, the learning-visit monk Jōgyō asked that the Taigensui spirit image and secret rites he had brought from Tang be enshrined at Hōrin-ji in Uji District, Yamashiro Province; permitted. (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 59번째 단락))
In the sixth month, Ono no Takamura, who had been exiled, entered the capital and, dressed in yellow robes, bowed in thanks. (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 68번째 단락))
In the sixth month, urgent report from the Dazaifu: the second ship of the Tang embassy, with Assistant Judge Yoshimine no Nagamatsu and others, reached Ōsumi Province. (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 69번째 단락))
In the ninth month, the Tsushima Island Office, citing the danger of storms, asked for one of the six Silla ships, as cargo ships carrying tribute and official documents often sank; permitted. (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 94번째 단락))
In the ninth month, Izu Province reported that the shrine on Zōsaku Island in Kamo District (formerly Kamitsu Island) burned and collapsed, and that it and the sea became two thousand chō of land and sandbars (read as the record of an eruption). (Shoku Nihon Kōki 續日本後紀 卷第九 (원문 98번째 단락))
Western Europe (1)
King Æthelwulf fought a fleet of thirty-five ships at Carhampton, but the Danes took the field. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Giles/Ingram 1847 A.D. 840 항 (pg657.txt 줄 2602))
Changes of power ◆
Places where the world territory data shows a change of borders in this year.
◆ Hungarians appears
◆ Shirvan ends
◆ Pratihara dynasty takes 247,400 km² of former Pala Empire land
◆ Abbasid Caliphate takes 112,900 km² of former Shirvan land
◆ Pala Empire loses 247,400 km² to Pratihara dynasty