860

Year 860 (DCCCLX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 857
  • 858
  • 859
  • 860
  • 861
  • 862
  • 863
860 by topic
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  • Births
  • Deaths
  • Establishments
860 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar860
DCCCLX
Ab urbe condita1613
Armenian calendar309
ԹՎ ՅԹ
Assyrian calendar5610
Balinese saka calendar781–782
Bengali calendar267
Berber calendar1810
Buddhist calendar1404
Burmese calendar222
Byzantine calendar6368–6369
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3556 or 3496
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3557 or 3497
Coptic calendar576–577
Discordian calendar2026
Ethiopian calendar852–853
Hebrew calendar4620–4621
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat916–917
 - Shaka Samvat781–782
 - Kali Yuga3960–3961
Holocene calendar10860
Iranian calendar238–239
Islamic calendar245–246
Japanese calendarJōgan 2
(貞観２年)
Javanese calendar757–758
Julian calendar860
DCCCLX
Korean calendar3193
Minguo calendar1052 before ROC
民前1052年
Nanakshahi calendar−608
Seleucid era1171/1172 AG
Thai solar calendar1402–1403
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
986 or 605 or −167
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
987 or 606 or −166
King Æthelberht of Wessex (c. 836–865)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

Europe
  • King Charles the Bald gives the order to build fortified bridges across the Seine and Loire Rivers, to protect Paris and the Frankish heartland against Viking raids. He hires the services of Weland, a Viking chieftain based on the Somme, to attack the Seine Vikings at their base on the Isle of Oissel. Weland besieges the Vikings—they offer him a huge bribe (6,000 pounds of silver) to let them escape.[3]
  • Summer – The Viking chieftains Hastein and Björn Ironside ravage upstream and move to Italy, sacking Luna (believing it to be Rome). They sail up the River Arno to sack the cities of Pisa and Fiesole (Tuscany).[4]
  • Summer – Viking raiders led by Weland sail to England and attack Winchester (the capital of Wessex), which is set ablaze. He spreads inland, but is defeated by West Saxon forces, who deprive him of all he has gained.[5]
  • December 20 – King Æthelbald of Wessex dies after a 2½-year reign.[6] He is succeeded by his brother, sub-king Æthelberht of Kent, who becomes sole ruler of Wessex.[7]

Iberian Peninsula

By topic

Art

Communication

Religion

Births

Deaths
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References
  1. Logan 1992, p. 190.
  2. Vasiliev 1925, pp. 188–189.
  3. John Haywood (1995). The Historical Atlas of the Vikings, pp. 60–61. Penguin Books: ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
  4. John Haywood (1995). The Historical Atlas of the Vikings, p. 59. Penguin Books: ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
  5. Paul Hill (2009). The Viking Wars of Alfred the Great, p. 20. ISBN 978-1-59416-087-5.
  6. "Aethelbald - king of Wessex". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  7. "Aethelberht - king of Wessex". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
  8. Martínez Diez 2007, p. 25.

Sources
  • Logan, Donald F. (1992). The Vikings in history (2nd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08396-6.
  • Martínez Diez, Gonzalo (2007). Sancho III el Mayor Rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus (in Spanish). Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia. ISBN 978-84-96467-47-7. JSTOR j.ctt6wpw4q.
  • Vasiliev, Alexander (1925). The Russian Attack on Constantinople in 860. Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America.
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