897

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
897 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar897
DCCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita1650
Armenian calendar346
ԹՎ ՅԽԶ
Assyrian calendar5647
Balinese saka calendar818–819
Bengali calendar304
Berber calendar1847
Buddhist calendar1441
Burmese calendar259
Byzantine calendar6405–6406
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
3594 or 3387
    — to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
3595 or 3388
Coptic calendar613–614
Discordian calendar2063
Ethiopian calendar889–890
Hebrew calendar4657–4658
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat953–954
 - Shaka Samvat818–819
 - Kali Yuga3997–3998
Holocene calendar10897
Iranian calendar275–276
Islamic calendar283–284
Japanese calendarKanpyō 9
(寛平9年)
Javanese calendar795–796
Julian calendar897
DCCCXCVII
Korean calendar3230
Minguo calendar1015 before ROC
民前1015年
Nanakshahi calendar−571
Seleucid era1208/1209 AG
Thai solar calendar1439–1440
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.

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

Events

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Europe

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Britain

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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

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  • 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

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  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.