866

This page relates to the year 866 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Fujiwara No Yoshifusa is made grant the title of regent and Prime Minister to the Japan.
Saichō and Ennin becomes Taishi, Masters of the Law; it is the beginning of this titulature.

Beginning of the caliphate of Mohammad Al-Mutazz, deposited by its Turkish guard (fine in 869).

May 27th: Beginning of the reign of Alphonse III Large the, king of the Asturies (fine in 910). It conquers the León and of part of the old woman Castille. It supports the rural colonization of the No man' S Land which separates the Christian State and the Moslem State. It strengthens Burgos and covers the area of castles (Castille). It makes Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle one évêché.

Beginning of a new wave of Danish incursion (the “Large army”) in England, fought by Aethelred ( Ethelred ), king of Wessex (fine in 871).

the Danish reconquer little by little the England starting from London and of the the Thames.
November 1st: The town of York is taken by the Vikings who make of it for one century the capital of the Royaume Viking of York (fine 954).
Conquest of Northumbrie by the Vikings (866 - 867). The local kings, Osbeth and Ella, are killed (867).

January: The Western Francie pay first tributes with the Viking S (Norman): 4000 pounds of money taken by an exceptional tax on the free men, the clerks and the merchants.
September 15th: The Viking S are beaten by the Francs at the time of the Bataille of Brissarthe in the north of Angers. The Viking Hasting withdraws himself but Robert the Fort is killed, like Ramnulf Ier of Poitiers. Previously, they had devastated the Anjou and, by going up the Maine, and had plundered Mans.
Too young people to succeed to him, wire of Robert the Fort (whose Eudes and Robert I {{er}}, future kings) is entrusted to Hugues the Abbot, who deals with the counties (Touraine, Anjou, Blésois).
Creation of the marquisat of Flanders, given to Baudouin by Charles the Bald person. He includes/understands then the counties of Bruges, of Waes, Ghent and Mempisc (Bergues). These Pagi will be plain in Comté of Flanders by Baudouin II between 879 and 818.

Beginning of a campaign of the emperor Louis II against the Buckwheats in Italy of the South (fine in 867).

April: Basile the Macedonian, favorite of Michel III, assassinates Bardas.
Basile is associated with the empire. He married Eudokia Ingerina.
Photios (Photius) question in its Encyclopedia the orthodoxy of the Pope and the Roman Church.
a Russian attack against Byzance fails.

Robert IV the Fort, marquis of Neustrie, ancestor of the dynasty capétienne, with the Battle of Brissarthe.
Ramnulf I {{er}}, count de Poitiers of 839 with 866, duke of Aquitaine of 856 with 866, the Battle of Brissarthe.

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