Year 803 ( DCCCIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar .

Events [ edit ]

By place [ edit ]

Byzantine Empire [ edit ]

• Emperors Nikephoros I and Charlemagne settle their imperial boundaries in the Adriatic Sea , and sign the Pax Nicephori ("Peace of Nikephoros"). The Byzantines retain control of the coastal cities and islands in Dalmatian Croatia , while Frankish rule is accepted over Istria and the Dalmatian hinterland. ^[1] Venice is recognized as independent by the Byzantine Empire .
• Summer – Bardanes Tourkos , Byzantine general ( strategos ), is proclaimed emperor by the troops of the Anatolic , Opsikion , Thracian and Bucellarian themes. The 'rebel' army marches to Chrysopolis , a suburb of Constantinople . After the defection of two of his trusted aides , future emperors Leo the Armenian and Michael the Amorian , Bardanes negotiates peace.

Europe [ edit ]

• May – Krum , ruler ( khan ) of the Bulgarian Empire , begins his territorial expansion and raids the Byzantine northern frontier. He leads his warriors ? mostly Bulgars , Slavs , Thracians and Macedonians ? across the Carpathian Mountains , over the Danube River , and throughout Transylvania , Thrace , and Macedonia .
• St. Peter Stiftskulinarium , possibly Central Europe 's oldest restaurant , is founded in Salzburg, Austria . ^[2]

Abbasid Caliphate [ edit ]

• Caliph Harun al-Rashid has his friend and vizier (secretary) Ja'far ibn Yahya beheaded , The surviving members of the influential Barmakid family (Jafar's family) are imprisoned on the orders of Harun, and their property is confiscated .
• Marriage of caliph Harun al-Rashid and Umm Muhammad ; She was the daughter of Abbasid prince Salih al-Miskin and Umm Abdullah, the daughter of Isa ibn Ali. They married in November-December 803 in Al-Raqqah. She had formerly been married to Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi , who had repudiated her. ^[3]
• The 803 Mopsuestia earthquake takes place in the vicinity of Mopsuestia , and the Gulf of Alexandretta (?skenderun) ^[4]

By topic [ edit ]

Religion [ edit ]

• October 12 – The Synod of Clofesho (possibly Brixworth ) is held, at which the Archbishopric of Lichfield is demoted to an ordinary bishopric , with papal permission obtained by King Coenwulf of Mercia .

Births [ edit ]

• Du Mu , Chinese poet and official (d. 852 )
• Emma of Altdorf , Frankish queen and wife of King Louis the German of East Francia (died 876)
• Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam , Muslim historian (d. 871 )
• Liu Congjian , Chinese governor (d. 843 )

Deaths [ edit ]

• May 25 – Higbald , bishop of Lindisfarne
• August 9 – Irene of Athens , Byzantine empress
• Ja'far ibn Yahya , Persian vizier (b. 767 )
• Kardam , ruler ( khan ) of Bulgaria (or 802 )

References [ edit ]

Sources [ edit ]

• al-Tabari, Muhammad Ibn Yarir; Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (1989). The History of al-Tabari Vol. 30: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium: The Caliphates of Musa al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid A.D. 785-809/A.H. 169-193 . Bibliotheca Persica. State University of New York Press. ISBN   978-0-88706-564-4 .
• Antonopoulos, J. (1980), Data from investigation of seismic Sea waves events in the Eastern Mediterranean from 500 to 1000 A.D. , Annals of Geophysics