897

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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 303–304
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 of the Julian calendar.

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Events

By place

Europe

Britain

  • 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]

Arabian Empire

Japan

By topic

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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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.