843
Encyclopedia : 8 : 84 : 843 : 843
| Years: 839 840 841 842 - 843 - 844 845 846 847 | |
| Decades: 810s 820s 830s - 840s - 850s 860s 870s | |
| Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century | |
843 is the area code for eastern South Carolina, including Charleston, Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head.
Events
- Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian empire between the 3 sons of Louis the Pious. Namely Charles the Bald, Lothar and Louis the German, thus first creating the Kingdom of France as a distinct state.
- Kenneth I of Scotland, King of the Scots, also becomes King of the Picts, thus becoming the first monarch of the new, united state, the Kingdom of Scotland. The resulting unified Scottish/Pictish Kingdom is called Alba (the Scottish gaelic word for Scotland). Beginning of the rule of the Alpin dynasty of Scottish kings.
- End of iconoclastic controversies in Byzantium.
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