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Events

By Place

Asia

* Indravarman II succeeds Jayavarman III as ruler of the Khmer Empire.

Europe

* The Danes take Exeter, England.
* Aed Whitefoot succeeds Constantine I of Scotland.
* Pope John VIII requests the help of Charles the Bald, King of West Francia, against attacks by the Saracens in Italy.
* June - Charles sets out for Italy, accompanied by his wife Richilda and only a small number of his chief vassals. Orders are issued for an army to be assembled to join him a little later. Pope John VIII receives Charles at Vercelli. But at the same time Carloman, king of Bavaria and the East Mark, has also crossed the Alps into eastern Lombardy at the head of a powerful army. Charles hurries on the coronation of Richilda as Empress and sends her back to Gaul with orders for the reinforcements to hurry. However, the Frankish aristocracy is more concerned with the attacks by the Northmen in their country than the war with the Saracens in southern Italy. When the reinforcements do not arrive, Charles the Bald is compelled to return to West Francia. But on the road he dies in a poor hovel. It is said that he was poisoned by his Jewish doctor Zedekiah. Carloman of Bavaria, forced by an epidemic which broke out in his army, returns to Germany. When Louis the Stammerer receives news of the death of his father, Charles the Bald, he makes plans to go into West Francia to receive the oath of fidelity from his new subjects. On his way he learns that the magnates are refusing him obedience by rallying around Boso and the Abbot Hugh. The rebels are supported by his stepmother, the widowed Empress Richilda, and, as a sign of their displeasure, ravage the country. Boso is the brother of Richilda and duke of Provence. Hugh had been given the Abbey of Saint-Bertin by Louis’ father. Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, intercedes and the rebels agree to a settlement. The magnates, whose rights the king promises to recognize, all make their submissions.
* December 8 - Hincmar crowns Louis the Stammerer King of the West Franks in the church of Compiegne.

Births

*Wang Kon, Korean emperor

Deaths

*October 6 — Charles the Bald, King of the Western Franks and Western Emperor
* Constantine I, King of the Scots and Picts
* Halfdan Ragnarsson