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843| 836–890 | India [administration] | After the disasters of Ramabhadra's reign, his son, King Bhoja I, restores the Gurjara kingdom as the leading power of northern India. | | 843 | Byzantine Empire [political events] | The Byzantine emperor, Michael III, restores the veneration of religious icons in the Byzantine Empire. Prominent supporters of iconoclasm such as the patriarch Ignatius are soon eased out of power, ending the diplomatically damaging and socially divisive iconoclastic dispute. | | 843 | Scotland [wars] | Kenneth I (called MacAlpin), King of the Scots of Argyll, conquers the Picts of Caledonia to create the kingdom of Alba or ‘Scotland’. | | 8 August 843 | Carolingian Empire [treaties] | The Treaty of Verdun settles the quarrels of the heirs of the late Frankish emperor Louis I the Pious over their inheritance. Lothair I retains the title of emperor and receives ‘the Middle Kingdom’ (Italy, lands between the Rhine and Rhône–Saône–Scheldt, and Frisia, including the imperial capitals Rome and Aachen), while Louis the German receives the East Frankish Kingdom (Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria, and Carinthia) and Charles II the Bald receives the West Frankish Kingdom (Neustria, Aquitaine, Gascony, and the Spanish March). |
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