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822 CE

Ukit Took becomes the last ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city-state Copán (modern Guatemala). After his death in 830, the kingdom is wiped out, most likely from an epidemic. Battle of Kedouktos (near Heraclea): Khan Omurtag of Bulgaria sends a relief army, and defeats the Byzantine rebels. Emperor Louis I performs public penance for causing his nephew Bernard's death 4 years earlier, at his palace of Attigny (Ardennes), before Pope Paschal I, and the Frankish nobles (this to restore harmony and re-establish his authority).

Conflict & Security

  • Battle of Kedouktos (near Heraclea): Khan Omurtag of Bulgaria sends a relief army, and defeats the Byzantine rebels.source
  • Kim Hŏn-ch'ang launches a short-lived rebellion in Silla, which gains control over much of the southern and western Korean Peninsula.source
  • King Ceolwulf I of Mercia invades Powys (Wales), but is beaten back by King Cyngen. However, Ceolwulf does destroy the fortress of Deganwy, and later takes the kingdom under his control (approximate date).source
  • Byzantine general and usurper Thomas the Slav continues his revolt against Emperor Michael II. He unsuccessfully besieges Constantinople, while his fleet is destroyed by Michael's fleet, using Greek fire.source

Religion & Belief

  • Emperor Louis I performs public penance for causing his nephew Bernard's death 4 years earlier, at his palace of Attigny (Ardennes), before Pope Paschal I, and the Frankish nobles (this to restore harmony and re-establish his authority).source
  • The earliest known mention of the Serbs, in Einhard's Royal Frankish Annals.source

Health & Medicine

  • February 6 – Ukit Took becomes the last ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city-state Copán (modern Guatemala). After his death in 830, the kingdom is wiped out, most likely from an epidemic.source

Births

  • Minamoto no Tōru, Japanese poet (d. 895)source
  • Al-Mutawakkil, Muslim caliph (d. 861)source
  • Xuefeng Yicun, Chinese Chan master (d. 908)source
  • Ibn Abi Asim, Muslim Sunni scholar (or 821)source

Deaths

  • June 26 – Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 767)source
  • Eigil of Fulda, Bavarian abbotsource
  • Denebeorht, bishop of Worcestersource
  • Kim Hŏn-ch'ang, Silla aristocrat and rebel leadersource
  • Al-Waqidi, Muslim historian and biographersource
  • Li Yijian, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty (b. 756)source
  • Winiges, duke of Spoleto (Italy)source
  • Gregory Pterotos, Byzantine general (strategos)source
  • Al-Hakam I, Muslim emir of Córdoba (b. 771)source
  • Tian Bu, general of the Tang Dynasty (b. 785)source
  • Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish Benedictine monk, becomes abbot of Fulda, after the death of Eigil.source
  • Al-Hakam I, Umayyad emir of Córdoba, dies after a 26-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Abd al-Rahman II, who begins a military campaign against King Alfonso II of Asturias in Al-Andalus (modern Spain).source
  • Tahir ibn Husayn, founder of the Tahirid Dynastysource