Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	830s 840s 850s – 860s – 870s 880s 890s
Years:	860 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

The 860s decade ran from January 1, 860, to December 31, 869.

[edit] Events and trends

• Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')
• Basil I has first caesar Bardas (866), then emperor Michael III (867) murdered and thus rises to the power himself. One of his first acts is to depose and banish patriarch Photius I and reinstate patriarch Ignatius, who had been arrested and illegally deposed earlier.
• Unrest in the Abbasid Caliphate led to the reorganization of the Ghulam Turkic soldier-class as the more modern Mamluk system

[edit] Significant people

• Rurik
• Pope Nicholas I
• Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Ragnar Lodbrok
• Basil I
• Charles the Bald
• Louis the German
• Baldwin I of Flanders