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897 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 897
DCCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita 1650
Armenian calendar 346
ԹՎ ՅԽԶ
Assyrian calendar 5647
Balinese saka calendar 818–819
Bengali calendar 304
Berber calendar 1847
Buddhist calendar 1441
Burmese calendar 259
Byzantine calendar 6405–6406
Chinese calendar 丙辰年 (Fire  Dragon)
3594 or 3387
     to 
丁巳年 (Fire  Snake)
3595 or 3388
Coptic calendar 613–614
Discordian calendar 2063
Ethiopian calendar 889–890
Hebrew calendar 4657–4658
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 953–954
 - Shaka Samvat 818–819
 - Kali Yuga 3997–3998
Holocene calendar 10897
Iranian calendar 275–276
Islamic calendar 283–284
Japanese calendar Kanpyō 9
(寛平9年)
Javanese calendar 795–796
Julian calendar 897
DCCCXCVII
Korean calendar 3230
Minguo calendar 1015 before ROC
民前1015年
Nanakshahi calendar −571
Seleucid era 1208/1209 AG
Thai solar calendar 1439–1440
Tibetan calendar 阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
1023 or 642 or −130
     to 
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1024 or 643 or −129
The cadaver of Pope Formosus is put on trial at St. Peter's. Jean Paul Laurens Le Pape Formose et Etienne VI 1870.jpg
The cadaver of Pope Formosus is put on trial at St. Peter's.

Year 897 ( DCCCXCVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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  • English warships (nine vessels from Alfred's new fleet) intercept six Viking longships in the mouth of an unknown estuary on the south coast (possibly at Poole Harbour) in Dorset. The Danes are blockaded, and three ships attempt to break through the English lines. Lashing the Viking boats to their own, the English crew board the enemy's vessels and kill everyone on board. Some ships manage to escape, two of the other three boats are driven against the Sussex coast. The shipwrecked sailors are brought before King Alfred the Great at Winchester and hanged. Just one Viking ship returns to East Anglia. [1]

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Religion

  • January The Cadaver Synod: Lambert II orders Stephen VI to exhume the nine-month-old cadaver of former pope Formosus, to redress him in papal robes, and have him put on trial while seated in a chair at St. Peter's. Formosus is 'convicted' of several crimes, his fingers of consecration are cut off, and the body is stripped of his vestments.
  • August Stephen VI is removed from office, imprisoned and strangled in his cell. He is succeeded by Romanus as the 114th pope of the Catholic Church.
  • December Romanus is deposed and succeeded by Theodore II as the 115th pope of Rome, who dies twenty days later.

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Pope Theodore II was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States for twenty days in December 897. His short reign occurred during a period of partisan strife in the Catholic Church, which was entangled with a period of violence and disorder in central Italy. His main act as pope was to annul the recent Cadaver Synod, therefore reinstating the acts and ordinations of Pope Formosus, which had themselves been annulled by Pope Stephen VI. He also had the body of Formosus recovered from the river Tiber and reburied with honour. He died in office in late December 897.

The 820s decade ran from January 1, 820, to December 31, 829.

The 840s decade ran from January 1, 840, to December 31, 849.

The 850s decade ran from January 1, 850, to December 31, 859.

The 860s decade ran from January 1, 860, to December 31, 869.

The 870s decade ran from January 1, 870, to December 31, 879.

The 880s decade ran from January 1, 880, to December 31, 889.

The 890s decade ran from January 1, 890, to December 31, 899.

The 780s decade ran from January 1, 780, to December 31, 789.

The 910s decade ran from January 1, 910, to December 31, 919.

The 920s decade ran from January 1, 920, to December 31, 929.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">846</span> Calendar year

Year 846 (DCCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">891</span> Calendar year

Year 891 (DCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">880</span> Calendar year

Year 880 (DCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">896</span> Calendar year

Year 896 (DCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">898</span> Calendar year

Year 898 (DCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">894</span> Calendar year

Year 894 (DCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">889</span> Calendar year

Year 889 (DCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cadaver Synod</span> Posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus

The Cadaver Synod is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, the successor to Formosus' successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen had Formosus' corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment. He accused Formosus of perjury, of having acceded to the papacy illegally, and illegally presiding over more than one diocese at the same time. At the end of the trial, Formosus was pronounced guilty, and his papacy retroactively declared null.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lambert of Italy</span> Holy Roman Emperor (c. 880 – 898)

Lambert was the King of Italy from 891, Holy Roman Emperor, co-ruling with his father from 892, and Duke of Spoleto and Camerino from his father's death in 894. He was the son of Guy III of Spoleto and Ageltrude, born in San Rufino. He was the last ruler to issue a capitulary in the Carolingian tradition.

References

  1. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, pp. 140–141. ISBN   978-1-59416-087-5.
  2. Madelung, W. (2004). "al-Ḥādī Ila 'l-Ḥaḳḳ". In Bearman, P. J.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E. & Heinrichs, W. P. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume XII: Supplement. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 334–335. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_8582. ISBN   978-90-04-13974-9.