| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1609 |
| Armenian calendar | 305 ԹՎ ՅԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5606 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 777–778 |
| 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 | 777–778 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3956–3957 |
| Holocene calendar | 10856 |
| Iranian calendar | 234–235 |
| Islamic calendar | 241–242 |
| Japanese calendar | Saikō 3 (斉衡３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 753–754 |
| Julian calendar | 856 DCCCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3189 |
| Minguo calendar | 1056 before ROC 民前1056年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −612 |
| Seleucid era | 1167/1168 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1398–1399 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 982 or 601 or −171 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 983 or 602 or −170 |
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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 and the logothete Theoktistos. 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 repopulation 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 to 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 (approximate date) – An earthquake in Corinth, Greece kills an estimated 45,000 people.
- December 3 – Another earthquake strikes the Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Tunisia), also killing an estimated 45,000 people.[4]
- December 22 – Another earthquake strikes Damghan (modern-day Iran), killing an estimated 200,000 people.
Births
- October 24 – Li Keyong, Shatuo governor (jiedushi) (d. 908)
- Li Maozhen, Chinese warlord and king (d. 924)
Deaths
- January 7 – Aldric, bishop of Le Mans
- February 4 – Rabanus Maurus, archbishop of Mainz
- August 6 – Fujiwara no Nagara, Japanese statesman (b. 802)
- August 16 – Theutbald I, bishop of Langres
- Florinus of Remüs, Frankish priest and martyr
- Godfrid Haraldsson, Viking chieftain (approximate date)
- Guerin, Frankish nobleman (or 845)
- Ilyas ibn Asad, Muslim emir (approximate date)
- Muhammad I Abu 'l-Abbas, Muslim emir
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.
- ^ "How many casualties...?". FindTheData. November 18, 2013. Archived from the original on November 18, 2013. Retrieved December 22, 2017.