856
This article is about the year 856. For the number, see 856 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 820s 830s 840s – 850s – 860s 870s 880s |
| Years: | 853 854 855 – 856 – 857 858 859 |
| 856 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1609 |
| Armenian calendar | 305 ԹՎ ՅԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5606 |
| Bengali calendar | 263 |
| Berber calendar | 1806 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1400 |
| Burmese calendar | 218 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6364–6365 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3552 or 3492 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3553 or 3493 |
| Coptic calendar | 572–573 |
| Discordian calendar | 2022 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 848–849 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4616–4617 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 912–913 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 778–779 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3957–3958 |
| Holocene calendar | 10856 |
| Iranian calendar | 234–235 |
| Islamic calendar | 241–242 |
| Japanese calendar | Saikō 3 (斉衡３年) |
| Julian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3189 |
| Minguo calendar | 1056 before ROC 民前1056年 |
| Seleucid era | 1167/1168 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1398–1399 |
Rabanus Maurus (left) presents his work to archbishop Odgar of Mainz (right)
Year 856 (DCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- March 15 – Emperor Michael III overthrows the regency of his mother Theodora with support of the Byzantine nobility. He appoints his uncle Bardas as the de facto regent and co-ruler of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
Europe
- King Charles the Bald cedes the county of Maine to Erispoe, ruler (duke) of Brittany—this in return for an alliance against the Vikings.
- King Ordoño I of Asturias is said to have begun the re-population of the town of León in the northwest of Spain (approximate date).
Britain
- October 1 – King Æthelwulf of Wessex marries the 12- or 13-year-old Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, at Verberie (Northern France). She is crowned queen and anointed by Hincmar, archbishop of Reims. The marriage is a diplomatic alliance between Wessex and the West Frankish Kingdom.[2]
- Winter – Æthelwulf returns to Wessex to face a revolt by his eldest son Æthelbald, who usurps the throne. Æthelwulf agrees the give up the western part of his kingdom in order to avoid a civil war. He keeps control over Sussex, Surrey, Essex and Kent, over which prince Æthelberht has presided.[3]
By topic
Geology
- November – An earthquake in Corinth (modern Greece) killing estimated 45,000 people (approximate date).
- December 22 – Another earthquake strikes Damghan (modern Iran) killing estimated 200,000 people.
Births
Deaths
- January 7 – Aldric, bishop of Le Mans
- Godfrid Haraldsson, Viking chieftain (approximate date)
- Muhammad I Abu 'l-Abbas, Muslim emir
- February 4 – Rabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz
References
- ↑ Treadgold 1997, pp. 450–451.
- ↑ Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 18. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5
- ↑ Keynes 1998, p. 7; Abels 2002, p. 89.
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