title: 848
text: # 848
  
  Year 848 (DCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### By place
  
  **Europe**
  
  * Summer – Bordeaux, capital of Aquitaine, falls into the hands of Viking raiders. King Charles the Bald sends a Frankish fleet to lift the siege. Despite destroying some Viking longships on the Dordogne River, they fail to save the city. The Abbey of Saint-Pierre in Brantôme is sacked.
  * Emperor Lothair I, and his (half) brothers Louis the German and Charles the Bald, meet in Koblenz to continue the system of "con-fraternal government".
  * Frankish forces under Count (comté) William of Septimania assume authority over the counties of Barcelona and Empúries (modern Spain).
  * The Saracens conquer Ragusa (Sicily), after its Byzantine garrison is forced by severe famine to surrender. The city and its castle are razed to the ground.
  
  **Britain**
  
  * The armies of Brycheiniog and Gwent clash in the battle of Ffinnant (Wales). King Ithel of Gwent is killed in the fighting (approximate date).
  * Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid, High King of Mide, defeats a Norse Viking army at Sciath Nechtain in Ireland (approximate date).
  
  **Asia**
  
  * The Medieval Cholas in Southern India start to rule (approximate date).
  
  ### By topic
  
  **Religion**
  
  * Pope Leo IV builds (on the opposite of the Tiber River) the Leonine City, a fortified three-kilometre wall that encircles the Vatican Hill and Borgo, to defend Rome.
  * The Roman Catholic church of Santa María del Naranco, on the slope of Monte Naranco (Northern Spain), is completed.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Alfonso III, king of Asturias (approximate date)
  * Carloman, Frankish abbot (d. 877)
  * Charles the Child, king of Aquitaine (or 847)
  * Lothair the Lame, Frankish abbot (d. 865)
  * Onneca Fortúnez, Basque princess (or 850)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Cui Yuanshi, chancellor of the Tang dynasty
  * Drest X, king of the Picts
  * Guo, empress dowager of the Tang dynasty
  * Ithel, king of Gwent (approximate date)
  * Li Gongzuo, Chinese writer
  * Malik ibn Kaydar, Muslim governor
  * Rechtabhra, bishop of Clonfert
  * Shi Xiong, Chinese general
  * Sunifred, Frankish nobleman
  * Sunyer I, Frankish nobleman
  * William I, duke of Gascony
  * Yahya al-Laithi, Muslim scholar
  