855
This article is about the year 855. For the number, see 855 (number). For the area code, see Toll-free telephone number.
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 820s 830s 840s – 850s – 860s 870s 880s |
| Years: | 852 853 854 – 855 – 856 857 858 |
| 855 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 855 DCCCLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1608 |
| Armenian calendar | 304 ԹՎ ՅԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5605 |
| Bengali calendar | 262 |
| Berber calendar | 1805 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1399 |
| Burmese calendar | 217 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6363–6364 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3551 or 3491 — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3552 or 3492 |
| Coptic calendar | 571–572 |
| Discordian calendar | 2021 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 847–848 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4615–4616 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 911–912 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 777–778 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3956–3957 |
| Holocene calendar | 10855 |
| Iranian calendar | 233–234 |
| Islamic calendar | 240–241 |
| Japanese calendar | Saikō 2 (斉衡２年) |
| Julian calendar | 855 DCCCLV |
| Korean calendar | 3188 |
| Minguo calendar | 1057 before ROC 民前1057年 |
| Seleucid era | 1166/1167 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1397–1398 |
Year 855 (DCCCLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- September 29 – Emperor Lothair I dies after a 15-year reign (co-ruling with his father Louis the Pious until 840). He divides the Middle Frankish Kingdom between his three sons in an agreement called the Treaty of Prüm—the eldest, Louis II receives the northern half of Italy and the title of Holy Roman Emperor. The second, Lothair II receives Lotharingia (the Low Countries and Upper Burgundy). The youngest, Charles receives Lower Burgundy and Provence.
Britain
- Spring – King Æthelwulf of Wessex decides to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, accompanied by his youngest son Alfred (age 6) and a large retinue.[1] He divides the kingdom between his two eldest sons, Æthelbald receives the western part of Wessex, while Æthelberht becomes ruler over Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex.[2]
Arabian Empire
- Caliph Al-Mutawakkil sends a Abbasid army led by the Turkic general Bugha al-Kabir to suppress an Armenian uprising of rebellious nakharars. He subdues the country and deports many Armenian nobles to the caliphal capital of Samarra.[3]
By topic
Religion
- July 17 – Pope Leo IV dies after a 8-year reign and is succeeded by Benedict III as the 104th pope of Rome. Anastasius is made anti-pope by Lothair I.
- Æthelwulf grants churches in Wessex the right to receive tithes. He gives one-tenth of his lands to the Church.[4]
- The Slavic alphabet is created by Saints Cyrill and Methodius.
Births
- Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, Muslim vizier (d. 924)
- Gerald of Aurillac, Frankish nobleman (approximate date)
Deaths
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim scholar and theologian (b. 780)
- Boso the Elder, count of Turin and Valois
- Cyngen ap Cadell, king of Powys (Wales)
- Drogo of Metz, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (b. 801)
- Gozbald, abbot and bishop of Würzburg
- July 17 – Leo IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 790)
- September 29 – Lothair I, Frankish king and emperor (b. 795)
- Pepin, count of Vermandois (approximate date)
- Sahnun ibn Sa'id, Muslim jurist (or 854)
- Sico II, prince of Salerno (Italy)
- November 20 – Theoktistos, Byzantine chief minister
References
- ↑ Abels 1998, p. 72.
- ↑ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 17. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5
- ↑ Ter-Ghevondyan. Arab Emirates, pp. 83–86.
- ↑ Stevenson 1904, p. 186.
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