830s

Events and Trends

• The first Swedes arrive in Russia. (The Rus', from Roslagen)
• The Viking raids in Western Europe get more severe. They plunder Dorestad and establish themselves in Ireland.
• Louis the Pious and his sons fight about the division of the empire.
• Second Iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire (813–843).

Significant people

• Louis the Pious
• Egbert of Wessex
• Ansgar
• Wiglaf of Mercia
• Turgesius