866
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This article is about the year 866. For the number, see 866 (number). For the area code, see Toll-free telephone number.
Millennium: | 1st millennium |
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Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
Decades: | 830s 840s 850s – 860s – 870s 880s 890s |
Years: | 863 864 865 – 866 – 867 868 869 |
866 by topic | |
Politics | |
State leaders – Sovereign states | |
Birth and death categories | |
Births – Deaths | |
Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
Establishments – Disestablishments | |
Gregorian calendar | 866 DCCCLXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1619 |
Armenian calendar | 315 ԹՎ ՅԺԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 5616 |
Bengali calendar | 273 |
Berber calendar | 1816 |
Buddhist calendar | 1410 |
Burmese calendar | 228 |
Byzantine calendar | 6374–6375 |
Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3562 or 3502 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3563 or 3503 |
Coptic calendar | 582–583 |
Discordian calendar | 2032 |
Ethiopian calendar | 858–859 |
Hebrew calendar | 4626–4627 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 922–923 |
- Shaka Samvat | 788–789 |
- Kali Yuga | 3967–3968 |
Holocene calendar | 10866 |
Iranian calendar | 244–245 |
Islamic calendar | 251–252 |
Japanese calendar | Jōgan 8 (貞観8年) |
Javanese calendar | 764–765 |
Julian calendar | 866 DCCCLXVI |
Korean calendar | 3199 |
Minguo calendar | 1046 before ROC 民前1046年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −602 |
Seleucid era | 1177/1178 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1408–1409 |
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Fujiwara no Yoshifusa (804–872)
Year 866 (DCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
By place[edit]
Byzantine Empire[edit]
- Spring – Bardas, Byzantine chief minister (caesar), assembling a large-scale expedition against the Saracen stronghold of Crete is murdered by Basil the Macedonian at Miletus, for plotting against emperor Michael III.
- May 26 – Basil the Macedonian is crowned co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire and is adopted by the much younger Michael III.
Europe[edit]
- May 27 – King Ordoño I dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Alfonso III ("the Great") as ruler of Asturias.
- July 2 – Battle of Brissarthe: Frankish forces led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.
- Harald Fairhair wins a decisive battle in his quest to become king of all of Norway.
- Emperor Louis II defeats the Saracen invaders who are ravaging southern Italy.
Britain[edit]
- The Great Heathen Army of the Vikings ride north to Northumbria. The Northumbrians are preoccupied with a civil war, and the Danes enter York unopposed.[1]
Arabian Empire[edit]
- October 17 – Caliph Al-Musta'in is put to death after a 4-year reign. He is succeeded by Al-Mu'tazz who becomes the youngest Abbasid caliph to assume power.[2]
- The Kharijite revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate begins in Al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), which will last for 30 years.
Japan[edit]
- Fujiwara no Yoshifusa becomes regent (sesshō) to assist the child emperor Seiwa, starting the Fujiwara regentship.
By topic[edit]
Religion[edit]
- Boris I, ruler (knyaz) of Bulgarian Empire, sends a diplomatic mission led by the Bulgarian nobleman Peter to Rome in an effort to renew ties with the West.
- Pope Nicholas I forbids the use of torture in prosecutions for witchcraft (approximate date).
Births[edit]
- Carloman II, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (approximate date)
- September 19 – Leo VI, Byzantine emperor (d. 912)
- Robert I, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (d. 923)
- Savaric I, bishop of Mondoñedo (d. 877)
Deaths[edit]
- Al-Mu'ayyad, Abbasid prince
- October 17 – Al-Musta'in, Abbasid caliph
- April 21 – Bardas, Byzantine chief minister and regent
- Charles the Child, king of Aquitaine
- Eberhard, duke of Friuli
- Emenon, Frankish nobleman
- Hungerus Frisus, bishop of Utrecht
- July 16 – Irmgard, Frankish abbess
- Linji Yixuan, Chinese monk and founder of the Linji school
- Liudolf, duke of Saxony
- May 27 – Ordoño I, king of Asturias
- Ranulf I, Frankish nobleman (b. 820)
- July 2 – Robert the Strong, Frankish nobleman
- June 21 – Rodulf, Frankish archbishop
References[edit]
- ^ John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, p. 62. Penguin Books: ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8
- ^ History of the Arabs by Philip K. Hitti.