861
This page relates to the year 861 Calendrier Julien.
Events
Asia
- Crushing of a country revolt in China.
- Adoption of the Chinese Calendar with the Japan.
The Middle East
- December 11th: The Abbasid Caliph Al-Mutawakkil is assassinated by mercenaries.
- the son of the caliph, Al-Muntasir, pushed by the chiefs Mamelouks takes the head of a plot during which his/her father Al-Mutawakil is assassinated. The Mamelukes hold the reins of the capacity.
- Beginning of the reign of Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph ` (fine in 862).
Europe
- the Viking S Danish seize Winchester, the capital of the king Ethelbert of Wessex.
- the king of Moravie Rotislav request with the pope Nicolas I {{er}} the authorization to set up an independent ecclesiastical administration in Large-Moravie. The pope refuses and Rotislav turns in 862 to the emperor of Byzance Michel III, by requiring Masters of him.
- Council of Constantinople. Alexios Aristênos, canonist, takes part in the council.
- the Byzantine Nicéphore Phocas takes again the Crete with the Arab .
Worsen Carolingian
- Crisis of the divorce of Lothaire II (fine in 869): Lothaire II, not having a heir to his wife Theutberge, seeks to divorce to marry its mistress Waldrade who had given him a son. This divorce causes the opposition of the archbishop of Rheims Hincmar and of the pope Nicolas I {{er}}.
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Charles the Bald person entrusts to the duke Robert the Fort, an ancestor of the Capétiens, the mission of defending the area between the Seine and the Loire.
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the Vikings devastate Saint-Germain-of-Meadows and Saint-Maur-of-Ditches.
Art & culture
Births in 861
Death in 861
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Al Ferghani, astronomer of Damas. It calculates terrestrial longitudes and writing of the elements of astronomy.
Map-bms: 861
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