866

This article is about the year 866. For the area code, see Toll-free telephone number.

Millennium:	1st millennium
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

866 in various calendars
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	787–788
- Kali Yuga	3966–3967
Holocene calendar	10866
Iranian calendar	244–245
Islamic calendar	251–252
Japanese calendar	Jōgan 8 (貞観８年)
Javanese calendar	763–764
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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 866.

Year 866 (DCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Spring – Bardas, the regent of the Byzantine Empire, is murdered by Basil the Macedonian at Miletus while large-scale expedition against the Saracen stronghold of Crete.
May 26 – Basil the Macedonian is crowned co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire and is adopted by the much younger Michael III.

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.

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]

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.

Fujiwara no Yoshifusa becomes regent (sesshō) to assist the child emperor Seiwa, starting the Fujiwara regentship.

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).

↑ 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.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/10/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.