863
This article is about the year 863. For the number, see 863 (number).
| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 8th century – 9th century – 10th century |
| Decades: | 830s 840s 850s – 860s – 870s 880s 890s |
| Years: | 860 861 862 – 863 – 864 865 866 |
| 863 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 863 DCCCLXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1616 |
| Armenian calendar | 312 ԹՎ ՅԺԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5613 |
| Bengali calendar | 270 |
| Berber calendar | 1813 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1407 |
| Burmese calendar | 225 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6371–6372 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3559 or 3499 — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3560 or 3500 |
| Coptic calendar | 579–580 |
| Discordian calendar | 2029 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 855–856 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4623–4624 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 919–920 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 785–786 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3964–3965 |
| Holocene calendar | 10863 |
| Iranian calendar | 241–242 |
| Islamic calendar | 248–249 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōgan 5 (貞観５年) |
| Julian calendar | 863 DCCCLXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3196 |
| Minguo calendar | 1049 before ROC 民前1049年 |
| Seleucid era | 1174/1175 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1405–1406 |
Cyril and Methodius (left) arrive in Moravia
Year 863 (DCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- September 3 – Battle of Lalakaon: Emperor Michael III assembles a Byzantine expeditionary army (50,000 men) under his uncle Petronas to confront an Abbassid invasion. Muslim forces led by emir Umar al-Aqta, raid deep into Byzantine territory, reaching the Black Sea coast at the port city of Amisos. Petronas annihilates the Arabs near the River Lalakaon in Paphlagonia (modern Turkey).
Europe
- January 25 – Emperor Louis II claims Provence after the death of his brother Charles. King Lothair II receives Lower Burgundy and a part of the Jura Mountains.
- King Louis the German suppresses the revolt of his son Carloman (for the second time) who wants a partition, mainly of Bavaria, of the East Frankish Kingdom.
- Viking raiders again plunder Dorestad (modern Netherlands). A Frankish port on the mouth of the River Rhine, it thereafter disappears from the chronicles.
- Danish Vikings looting along the River Rhine, they settle on an island close by Cologne but are driven off by a combined attack of Lothair II and Saxons.
- The Christianization of the Rus' Khaganate begins ceasing the dominance of the 63-year-long Rus' Khaganate (approximate date).
- The first written record of Smolensk (according to the primary Chronicle).
Asia
- Duan Chengshi, Chinese author and scholar, writes about Chinese maritime trade and Arab-run slave trade in East Africa.[1]
By topic
Religion
- Pope Nicholas I sends archbishops Gunther and Theotgaud to a synod of Metz which confirms the permission given to king Lothair II of Lotharingia to remarry.
- The Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrive with a few disciples in Moravia upon a request of prince Rastislav.[2]
- Nicholas I excommunicates patriarch Photios I of Constantinople.
Births
Deaths
- Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani, Muslim governor
- June 4 – Charles, archbishop of Mainz
- January 25 – Charles of Provence, Frankish king (b. 845)
- Duan Chengshi, Chinese official and scholar
- Karbeas, leader of the Paulicians
- October 4 – Turpio, Frankish nobleman
- Umar al-Aqta, emir of Melitene
References
- ↑ Levathes, p. 38.
- ↑ Barford 2001, pp. 109–110
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