{"id":40,"canonical_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/843ce-aug-14--40","name":"843 CE, August 14","year":843,"era":"CE","month":8,"day":14,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/843ce-aug-14--40","iso-date":"0843-08-14","precision":"year-month-day","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Treaty of Verdun is signed around August 14, 843, dividing Charlemagne's empire among his three grandsons and ending the Carolingian civil war which had been triggered by the death of their father, Louis the Pious on June 20, 840. The division of the empire laid the foundation that shaped modern European borders.\u003c/p\u003e","additional_details":"\u003cp\u003eThe division of the Empire was: West Francia to Charles the Bald, covering most of modern France. East Francia to Louis the German, covering lands east of the Rhine (modern Germany). Middle Francia to Lothair I, a strip stretching from the North Sea to Italy, including Aachen and Rome. The division actually intensified the rivalries between the brothers, leading to further fragmentation of the middle kingdom.\u003cbr\u003eThe treaty was the culmination of negotiations lasting more than a year and was the first of the four partition treaties of the Carolingian Empire, followed by the Treaties of Prüm (855), Meerssen (870), and Ribemont (880). \u003ca href=\"https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read\u0026author=marshall\u0026book=sketches\u0026story=verdun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eMore\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","photo":"","created_at":"2025-03-06T13:51:11-08:00","updated_at":"2026-03-15T10:40:32-07:00","breadcrumbs":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"August History","item":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"August 14","item":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august-14"}]},"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Thing","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/843ce-aug-14--40#eventK365","name":"843 CE, August 14","headline":"The Treaty of Verdun is signed around August 14, 843, dividing Charlemagne\u0026#39;s empire among his three... - 843 CE","description":"The Treaty of Verdun is signed around August 14, 843, dividing Charlemagne's empire among his three grandsons and ending the Carolingian civil war which had...","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/843ce-aug-14--40","additionalType":"HistoricalEvent","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2025-03-06T13:51:11-08:00","dateModified":"2026-03-15T10:40:32-07:00","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/#organizationK365"},"temporalCoverage":"0843-08-14","isPartOf":[{"@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/#websiteK365"},{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august","name":"What Happened in August History"},{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august-14#pageK365","name":"What Happened on August 14"}]}}