Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	8th century – 9th century – 10th century
Decades:	830s  840s  850s  – 860s –  870s  880s  890s
Years:	862 863 864 – 865 – 866 867 868

865 by topic v • d • e

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

865 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	865 DCCCLXV
Ab urbe condita	1618
Armenian calendar	314 ԹՎ ՅԺԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-979 – -978
Berber calendar	1815
Buddhist calendar	1409
Burmese calendar	227
Byzantine calendar	6373 – 6374
Chinese calendar	甲申年十一月三十日 (3501/3561-11-30) — to — 乙酉年十二月初十日 (3502/3562-12-10)
Coptic calendar	581 – 582
Ethiopian calendar	857 – 858
Hebrew calendar	4625 – 4626
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	920 – 921
- Shaka Samvat	787 – 788
- Kali Yuga	3966 – 3967
Holocene calendar	10865
Iranian calendar	243 – 244
Islamic calendar	250 – 251
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3198
Thai solar calendar	1408
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[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866).
• Louis the German divides his kingdom among his sons.
• Lothair, threatened with excommunication, takes back his first wife, Theutberga.
• Bulgaria under Boris I converts to Orthodox Christianity.

[edit] Asia

• A Russian expedition for the first time threatens Constantinople.

[edit] Births

• Hersent, Duchess of Lorraine, France
• Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi, physician, philosopher, and scholar who discovererd alcohol

[edit] Deaths

• Saint Ansgar (b. 801)
• Ragnar Lodbrok, King of Denmark and Sweden
• Liu Gongquan